Venus and Cupid

1596

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.3 x 25.5 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 x 25.9 cm (14 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.55

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 142, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 10, 1987; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

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. 64, 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. 142, only (as by Goltzius)

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom centre: HG; in image, at bottom right: 2; below image: Immenso nostrum spectatur numen in orbe, / Et magnam passim vim mens ignis habet. / Non Dii, non homines ulli mea spicula vitant, / His volucres figo, squamigerumqué genus.

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: Ruth Cole (Lugt 4739)

Watermarks

present but undeciphered

Wikidata ID

Q76343263

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