Saendredam, Jan Pieterszoon based on Abraham Bloemart

Jan Pieterszoon Saendredam (1565 Saerdam – 1612 Assendelft)
based on
Abraham Bloemart (1564 Dordrecht – 1651 Utrecht)

Elijah and the Widow of Zarapeth, 1604

copperplate, paper, 445×322 mm, 451×330 mm, 2nd shape
signed in the left bottom corner in the pricture: Abraham. Bloemart / inuentor / Joan. Saenredam Sculp. / Excudebat [1604]
text under the painting: Coelitus adocta qui pastus ab alite vates / venerat ad portas parva Sarepta tuas: / Munus ait viduae ramalia sparsa legenti / Exiguum gratus sed Careale peto. / Cui mulier, tesler viventis conscia Jovae / Numina et aeternum quem colis ipse Deum, / Dona laboratae Cerevit non vlla supersunt / spes oleum et vitae parea farina meae / Pome metum mulier, quin hinc abis, inquit Helias, / ét mihi, mox vobis liba parata refers / Nam Deus abramidûm nostri miseratus ab alto / Haec ait, haec certa perape dicta fide: / Urua venascentis cumulo foecunda farina / Stillantis a olei vena perennis erit. / Donee gravis effusis decidet imber aquis. / TSchrenelius.
acquired 1959, Olomouc Museum of Art, inv. no. G 2339