Jan Harmensz. Müller
Arion on a Dolphin

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Artist Jan Harmensz. Müller (Dutch, 1571–1628)Dutch, 1571–1628

Afterafter Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (Dutch, 1562–1638)Dutch, 1562–1638

PublisherPublished by Harmen Jansz. Müller (Netherlandish, 1538/39–1617)Netherlandish, 1538/39–1617

CultureDutch

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Arion on a Dolphin

Datec. 1590

MediumEngraving on laid paper, state II/III

DimensionsPlate or block: 14 × 14 1/16 in. (35.5 × 35.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 15 1/4 in. (37.9 × 38.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mary Ralph Lowe in honor of Clifford Edwards’s 29 years of service to the MFAH

Object number2021.176

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ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1590; [Norman Jack Leitman (born around 1934), New York, London, and San Diego (Lugt 4545)] (1); [R. M. Light & Co. Inc., Santa Barbara, by 1997]; purchased by Mary Ralph Lowe, Fort Worth, TX, 1997; Collection of Mary Ralph Lowe, Fort Worth,1997-2021; given to MFAH, 2021.

1 Norman Leitman was an art dealer in New York, London, and San Diego. He was co-founder of the Shickman Gallery in New York in 1964 with Herman Shickman. In the last several years Leitman along with Todd Butler have been collecting prints, particularly from the Mannerist period. After their retirement in 1998, Leitman and Butler moved to San Diego, California. Leitman commissioned the print dealer, Robert (Bob) M. Light, to find a buyer for their collection of Mannerist prints and many were acquired by Charles Hack in New York. Another part of their collection was sold in 2001 at Galerie Kornfeld, Graphik, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister in Bern (Cats. 94-109, 111-114, 116-185), prints presented as “Dutch Mannerists circa 1600.” Other prints were with other dealers on the art market or given to the Museum of Art in San Diego or the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Lettered [printed] in plate below image, right in the margin: C. Cornelÿ Harlemen inven. / Harman Mullerus excud. / Amsterodamj.
With two columns of text, in center each two lines: Quisnam igitur liber…teres atque rotundus
Recto: Inscribed [printed] in center: Hendrick Laurensz. Spieghel's motto in open letters "DUEGHD VERHUEGHT".

Catalogue raisonnéNew Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, (Muller Dynasty) part II.117.32 i/ii (32.I); Bartsch, Adam, Le Peintre graveur (III.277.32); Hollstein XIV 48, second state of three; Filed

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