The Drunken Silenus, c. 1635

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 42.6 x 32.6 cm (16 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)

sheet (cut within platemark): 43.4 x 33 cm (17 1/16 x 13 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 287, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1999.139.1

Artists / Makers

Schelte Adams Bolswert (artist) Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom of plate: P.P. Rubens delineau / Ebrietas mentis membrorumque impedit usum. / SILENI ut scité fabula prisca docet / Exhaurit nummos, Veneris, Martisque furores / Excitat, et mortem provocat ante diem. SA. Bolswert d.d.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 98/150 / 980575

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2007: The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1873: Schneevoogt, C. G. Voorhelm. Catalogue des Estampes gravées d'après P. P. Rubens. Haarlem: Les Héritiers Loosjes, 1873.

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