The Rape of a Sabine Woman, Frontal View

Prints and Drawings

c. 1598

Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571-1628)
after Adriaen de Vries (Dutch, c. 1545-1626)

Jan Harmensz Müller produced a series of masterful engravings from three different vantage points after wax models for Adriaen de Vries’s sculpture Rape of a Sabine. Although De Vries cast his sculpture around 1620, long after Müller produced his prints, he replicated the style of antique bronzes. Müller’s series highlights both his engraving skill and his ability to mimic sculpture in the round. The ancient story, in which Roman soldiers requisitioned brides en masse, is particularly apt for this purpose, for the images showcase the twists and turns of conflicting male and female bodies.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jan Harmensz. Muller
Title: The Rape of a Sabine Woman, Frontal View
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1593–1603
Medium: Engraving on paper
Dimensions: Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 42 × 28 cm (16 9/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2355
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Bartsch II.290.79

Hollstein vol. XIV, 65-67 VI

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