St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Sint Nikolaas

RP-P-OB-12.452

collector's mark: Lugt 2760

To meet the increasing demand for images of Saint Nicholas, the publisher Barent Koene took a damaged 16th-century woodblock with a portrait of Emperor Charles v and had it reprinted with the name of the saint on top. The emperor’s original headdress, a beret with a feather, was transformed by a well-aimed swipe of red ink into a sort of nightcap, and there you have your kindly saint.

J. Zelen, ‘Houtblokken voor centsprenten in de collectie van het Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap’, Delineavit et Sculpsit. Journal for Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings 52 (2023), pp. 16-39.

• print maker: manner of Cornelis Anthonisz.
• print maker: anoniem, Low Countries
• publisher: Barend Koene (III) (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

c. 1814 - c. 1830

houtsnede, handgekleurd in groen, geel en oranje

height 414 mm x width 340 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Public domain

• J. Zelen, ‘Houtblokken voor centsprenten in de collectie van het Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap’, Delineavit et Sculpsit. Journal for Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings 52 (2023), pp. 16-39.
• Hollstein Dutch 7-after
• Nijhoff 319

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200126345