The Three Graces, 1588

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Medium

engraving on beige laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.8 × 21.7 cm (11 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 355, State i/ii

Accession Number

2011.139.16

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

In plate, bottom: HG.(interlaced) Inuent./ Cur nudae Charites? et mundo orbata inuenta? / [hic qui]a fucus abest, est vbi verus Amor. / Munda carent mundo, nullo se tegmine velant, / Sese ornata sat est intemerata Charis.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B (p201/119.) 285 / J. Matham / The Three Graces / Cur nudae Charites...; lower left verso in graphite: C/t

Provenance

Leo Steinberg, New York [1920-2011]; Estate of Leo Steinberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 355, i/ii.