River Landscape with Mercury and Psyche, c. 1595

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 27.4 × 34.1 cm (10 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. A4, State i/ii

Accession Number

1964.8.402

Artists / Makers

Simon Novellanus (artist) German, active c. 1560/1590

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Joris Hoefnagel (publisher) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

in margin below image, in plate: Arti et ingenio stat sine morte decus. (For art and ingenuity, glory endures without end.) // Pulcher Atlantiades Psychen ad Sydera tollens, / Ingenio scandi Sydera posse docet. / Ingenio liquidum possim consendere Caelum, / Si mundi curas fata levare velint. (By raising Psyche to the stars, the handsome grandson of Atlas [Mercury] shows that with ingenuity he may ascend to the stars. With ingenuity I can ascend the clear skies, if Fate would lighten the cares of the world.) Petrus Breugel fec: Romae A[nn]o 1553. / Excud: Houf: cum prae: Caes:

Bibliography

1908: Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. A4, state i/ii.

1996: Serebrennikov, Nina Eugenia. "Imitating Nature / Imitiating Bruegel," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 223-246.