Silenus
Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 15.6 x 22.4 cm (6 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
sheet: 17.9 x 24 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2004.97.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 32, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Graphische Sammlung, Munich (Lugt 1614). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre); purchased 2004 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 39.
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, no. 32, i/ii.
Wikidata ID
Q76342354