Mars and Venus Surprised, c. 1615

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series Title

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 3 (plate 10)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.5 x 26 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

sheet: 18.7 x 26.4 cm (7 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 581, State i/ii

Accession Number

2011.139.134

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower right: HG inv. Rd Baud ex.; in plate, across lower edge: Cum venere in medijs nexus complexibus heret / Mars Pater, et toti proebet spectacula Coelo. / Mulciber indicio Phoebi deprendit, eosq / Jurpiter amplexos Divis ridentibus offert.

Provenance

Dr. Edward Peart, London (1756 or 1758 - 1826) (Lugt 892). Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Peart, Edward Dr.
Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 557

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 581, i/ii.