The Cult of Bacchus, 1596

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series Title

The Cult of Ceres, Venus and Bacchus (Plate 3)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.3 x 32.3 cm (17 7/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

sheet: 45.6 x 33 cm (17 15/16 x 13 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 71, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.608

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: HG. Inuent. / Saenredam sculp; in image, at bottom centre: 3; below image: Bacche pater, prono prostrati corpore cuncti, / Suppliciter petimus, nobis tua dona secundes: / Dona, quibus maeror tristis, luctusque recedit, / Nostraque sollicitis relevantur pectora curis. C. Schonaeus

Provenance

(Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 17, 2007; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Valeria Bella Stampe

Exhibition History

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

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. 71, i/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, no. 611, i/ii.