ID: 700000571 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000571	Record Type: Movable Work

[An armed man carrying the body of a dead boy] (engraving (print); Cort, Cornelis (engraver, 1533?-1578); Published: 1574; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 664821; (CMalG)1550-020; accession number: P990017** (FF. 14))

Note: Title from Bartsch; Title in Hollstein: An armed man carrying a dead boy; Flemish engraver and draftsman active in Antwerp. Since ca. 1565 he lived in Italy, mainly in Rome, also in Venice; The print reproduces an antique sculpture possibly of Neoptolemus & Astyanax: a statue of a nude man, with laurel crown, shield, sheath and robe, carring a dead naked child over his shoulder. According to Hollstein the statue is located in Naples; Forms part of Reproductive prints mostly after Peter Paul Rubens (Special Collections accn. no. P990017**); Publication: 1574.

Titles:

[An armed man carrying the body of a dead boy] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Armed man carrying a dead boy. (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Depiction of a sculpture portraying an armed man carrying a dead boy, possibly Neoptolemus and Astyanax (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive prints [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1574

Creator Display:

Cort, Cornelis (engraver, 1533?-1578) [preferred,GRISC]

Cort, Cornelis (North Netherlandish engraver and draftsman, 1533-before 1578) [500011556]

publishers unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Lafréry, Antoine (French printmaker, publisher, 1512-1577, active in Italy) [500011513]

Burchard, Ludwig (British art historian, 1886-1960) [500117265]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 664821; (CMalG)1550-020; accession number: P990017** (FF. 14)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate mark 35 x 17.5 cm; unmounted, cut to plate mark.

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

history and legend

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Neoptolemus [901000430]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	sculptures (visual works) [300047090]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) (AAT)

	ancient Italian sculpture styles [300107387]
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Early Western World, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Ancient Italian) (AAT)

	reproductive print [300041569]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works)) (AAT)

Provenance: Ludwig Burchard; artem Purchase

Inscriptions: "Ant. Lafrerij"--engraved above the base of statue; "Corneli Cort. fe. 1574"--engraved on base of statue in the lower right of image.

Marks: Collector's mark on verso: Alfred Misch

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[An armed man carrying the body of a dead boy]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 664821
Armed man carrying a dead boy.	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Depiction of a sculpture portraying an armed man carrying a dead boy, possibly Neoptolemus and Astyanax	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 vol. V, p. 54, 150

....................... Bartsch, Illustrated Bartsch (1978) vol. 52, p. 174, 150 II (155)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)