Cupid Balancing on a Globe
1533
Artist, German, active 1516/1530
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter Fund
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Dimensions
sheet (cut inside platemark): 11.9 x 6.8 cm (4 11/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2005.90.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 32, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2005, no. 5201); (via C.G. Boerner, New York and Düsseldorf); purchased by NGA, 2005.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
Inscriptions
in print, on sword blade: H L(backwards); in print, top right: 1553; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 777 / B. VIII S. 37 no 6
Wikidata ID
Q76348362