Literature:      New Hollstein 159-164.I/II.

Homogeneous 16th century fine and early impressions in the first state on full sheets. All numbered with old ink inscriptions on the top left corner, from 17 to 22.

Plate 1: Christ and the woman of Samaria

Plate 2: Christ and the woman with manorrhagia

Plate 3: Christ in the house of Simon

Plate 4: Christ and the woman of Cana

Plate 5: Christ and the woman taken in adultery

Plate 6: Christ healing a crippled woman

One of Frans Floris' pupils in Antwerp between 1550 and 1552, Blocklandt was at the court of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in Rome in 1572, where his 'mystic flare' and elegant and tall figures influenced the young El Greco (1541-1614) (1).

Such a fine and complete set is very rare. The British Museum has an incomplete set (inv. nn. 1868,0612.437, 1868,0612.438, 1937,0915.290, 1937,0915.396 and F,1.8).

(1) As suggested by Federico Zeri in Pittura e Controriforma, l'arte senza tempo di Scipione da Gaeta, Torino, 1957; and developed by Guido Checchi, La 'fiammata mistica' e l'intreccio tra arte e fede a Roma nell'orbita del cardinale Alessandro Farnese, in INTRECCI d'Arte DOSSIER, n. 2/2017.