Banquet of the Gods at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, 1589

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33.1 x 48.3 cm (13 1/16 x 19 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 336, State i/i

Accession Number

2012.92.515

Artists / Makers

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Crispin van den Broeck (artist after) Netherlandish, 1523 - c. 1591

Jan Pitten (publisher) Dutch, fl. 1588 - 1615

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

in image, at bottom left: CVBroeck. Inuent. Ao 1589 / IDGheyn. Sculptor / J. Pitten. exc; below image, at bottom: Dum conuiuatum placidé numerosa Deorum / Turba sedet, gaudens nectare et Ambrosia: / Ecce superuenit tanquam Dauus omnia turbans, / Inuidia, Erroris ducta sunul nebula. / Hoc pacto (:beu:) tandem peruertitor Ordo / Mole sua secum tristia quae que trahens.

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 6, 2007; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 Vols. Amsterdam, 1952: VII, no. 336, i/i.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2000: Part I, no. 147, i; (Crispijn van den Broeck, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: Part II, no. 223, i/iii.