Diana as Luna Accompanying a Young Man Serenading, 1615

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.2 x 29.9 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 22.6 x 30.8 cm (8 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 227, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.542

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Robert de Baudous (publisher) Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, at top centre: LUNA; below image, at right: HGoltzius inuentor / I. Matham sculp; R. de Baudous excud. 1615; below image: Sic IUVENES LUNAE per amica silentia multos Ille DEUS praepes caeco inflammavit.

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. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 201, i/i

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 227, i/ii