Mars and Venus Caught by the Gods, 1580-1628

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series Title

The Story of Mars and Venus (Plate 4)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.5 × 22.6 cm (7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 18.8 × 23 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1167, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.548

Artists / Makers

Hans Collaert the Younger (artist) Flemish, 1566 - 1628

Philip Galle (artist after) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Philip Galle (publisher) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

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Inscription

in image, at lower left: Phls Galle inuen. et. excu.; in image, at lower right: Ioan. Coll. scalpsit.; below image: Ignipotens postquam valuas patefecit eburnas / Admisit superos in sua tecta Deos. / Turpia spectantes illi connubia, rident. / Haecque diu in caelo fabula nota fuit.; below image, at center: 4.

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 6, 2006; 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. 97, only

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1167, i/ii