The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.

Previous title, replaced August 2023 : The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.

1916

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 30.5 x 40.5 cm

Heinrich Wirings (or Wiring, or Wirrich) appears to be a name used by the Cologne publisher Peter Overradt (Overadt, Overatt, Ourradt) to represent the author of engravings copied after, or emulating the style of, Hieronymus Wierix (Nagler, loc. cit.). The engraving on which the composition of the present painting is based is attributed to him on the evidence of an impression with lettering in Dutch above and German below in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (no. IE 126, as by Heinrich Wirich). An engraving by him of Saint Catherine is signed on the plate "Heinrich Wirings fecit" (impression in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig)

G.K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, 1835-1852, vol. 21, p. 554 ("Wiring, Heinrich, nennt Fussly jun. den Stecher eines Blattes, welches Christus am Kreuze in einer Einfassung mit den Leidensinstrumenten vorstellt. Unten mit der Schrift: Cernite mortales. horrentia vulnera Christi etc. Peter Ouerrart excudit, gr. 4. Dieses Blatt ist sicher von Hieronymus Wierx, oder Copie nach demselben mit falschem Namen.")

Wellcome Collection 45067i