Boetius Adams Bolswert

  • Sanctus Antoninus
  • Sanctus Antoninus

  • (c. 1610–1612), engraving
  • 5.83 x 3.7 in. (14.8 x 9.3 cm.) [image]
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • 447 x 675 (65 KB)

Editor’s Note:

The engraving above is from plate no.4 in the first series in the book, Sylva Anachoretica Aegypti et Palaestinae (Antwerp: Hendrik Aerts, 1619).

It is most probably a copy of the oil painting, Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1570's), by the Italian painter Leon Orsi.

Here is a close up of the pig:

close up