Venus and Cupid, 1596

Not on View

series Title

Three Goddesses (Plate 2)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.3 x 25.5 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 35.6 x 25.9 cm (14 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 142, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.55

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in image, at bottom centre: HG; in image, at bottom right: 2; below image: Immenso nostrum spectatur numen in orbe, / Et magnam passim vim mens ignis habet. / Non Dii, non homines ulli mea spicula vitant, / His volucres figo, squamigerumqué genus.

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: Ruth Cole (Lugt 4739)

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 10, 1987; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 64, only (as Saenredam)

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 142, only (as by Goltzius)