Lazarus before 1605 Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish Late in his career, Stradanus produced a series of drawings of bust- and half-length biblical figures, each appearing before a parapet and within an oval frame.1 In 1613, eight years after the artist’s death, nineteen of these sheets served as designs for a set of engravings entitled "Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti" (Images of Old Testament Prophets), cut by Cornelis Galle I and published by Theodoor Galle, both sons of Philips Galle, with whom Stradanus had worked for decades. Twenty-three years later, Theodoor’s son Johannes reissued the series with seven additional engravings after Stradanus’s designs.2 Based on the other surviving and recorded drawings, including the present sheet, it seems that a parallel series of New Testament figures had been planned, though only two (Saint Joseph and Saint James the Greater) were engraved; these were published not by the Galles but by Justus Sadeler, a member of

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Lazarus before 1605 Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish Late in his career, Stradanus produced a series of drawings of bust- and half-length biblical figures, each appearing before a parapet and within an oval frame.1 In 1613, eight years after the artist’s death, nineteen of these sheets served as designs for a set of engravings entitled "Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti" (Images of Old Testament Prophets), cut by Cornelis Galle I and published by Theodoor Galle, both sons of Philips Galle, with whom Stradanus had worked for decades. Twenty-three years later, Theodoor’s son Johannes reissued the series with seven additional engravings after Stradanus’s designs.2 Based on the other surviving and recorded drawings, including the present sheet, it seems that a parallel series of New Testament figures had been planned, though only two (Saint Joseph and Saint James the Greater) were engraved; these were published not by the Galles but by Justus Sadeler, a member of

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