Coronation of the Virgin
1632–36
- Medium
- woodcut
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208345
Peter Paul Rubens was as astute a businessman as he was a brilliant painter. He realized that substantial profit and fame could be derived from the publication of prints made after his paintings. He employed engravers and also Jegher, who made nine woodcuts after the master's work. While the engravings were always considered merely reproductive, the woodcuts were conceived and appreciated as original works of art because they exhibited the freedom and directness of expression lacking in the intaglio prints. Rubens revived the tradition of large-scale woodcuts, which had flourished in 16th-cen…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1925.149
Registry history
- 1632–36 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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