Minerva, 1596

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series Title

Three Goddesses (Plate 1)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33.9 x 25 cm (13 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 141, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.63

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at centre left: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. M. / Anno 1596; in image, at bottom centre: HG; in image, at bottom right: I; below image, at left: Quaecunque in terris florent, Sunt Palladis artes, / A me dexteritas, ingeniiqué vigor; below image, at centre: Magco ac Clarmo uiro Dño Joañi Baruito I. U. D.ri Sa. Cae. Mtis / Consiliario Aulico, e Secretario Dño suo obseruandissimo / H. Goltzius officii e gratitudinis ergò / D. D.; below image, at right: Nec mirum, ex cerebro cum sim prognata, Iovisqué / Optima pars, summo filia charo Deo. / C. Schonaeus

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. 63, 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. 141, only (as Goltzius)