Pieter de Jode (Antwerp 1573 - 1634)
The Theological Virtues and the Four Evangelists
pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over black pencil; incised for transfer
203 x 273 mm
Cornelis Galle after Pieter I de Jode
Frontispiece for Roderigo de Arriaga's Cursus Philosophicus
engraving
326 x 198 mm
Published by Bathasar I Moretus in 1632
August Grahl (1791-1868), Dresden (Lugt 1199);
Sold by his estate at Sotheby's, London, 27/28 April 1885, Lot 221 (as "B. van Orley");
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2-5 December 1966, Lot 713 (as "Virgil Solis");
Art trade, Basel;
Where acquired in 1977 by Dr. Tilman Falk ("meine erste Altmeister-Zeichnung").