Mercury Falling in Love with Herse

1590

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Hack

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.8 x 25.2 cm (7 x 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.5 x 26.9 cm (7 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.55.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 568, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector; D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalia (Lugt 567); Charles Hack, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 67

1949

  • Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: no. 544.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 568, i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 17. Palladis Actee sacrata in templa... / ...Hec visa est reliques dignior una Deo; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 500/91002

Wikidata ID

Q76439078

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