Blue Curtain
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![Ne humanis rationibus divina opera curiosius excutiamus sed ex operibus manuducti admiremur artificem. (Let us not investigate God’s works inquisitively using human reasoning; but, guided by the works, let us admire instead the artist.) Cervellum nobis frangunt gridando Cicadae: Vexat mastinos Musca tavana canes. (The cicadas shatter our brains with their chirping; a horsefly can harass blood-hounds [on the fly].), part III, plate 9, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/3042/thumbnail)
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Blue Curtain
Maker
Jacob Kainen
(b. 1909, Waterbury, Connecticut – d. 2001, Chevy Chase, Maryland)
Date1979
MediumMonotype
Dimensionssheet: 30 7/8 in. x 22 7/8 in. (78.4 cm x 58.1 cm); image: 24 1/8 in. x 18 1/16 in. (61.3 cm x 45.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisition Fund
Object number2018.230
Status
Not on viewProvenancePurchased Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers, sale no. 1506, Capital Collections Auction, September 14, 2018, lot no. 293.
William HeathS. W. Fores
ca. 1810
Object number: 2024.3.101
Margaret Erwin Schevill Link
1947
Object number: 1971.10.4
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592
Object number: 2006.108