Diana as Luna Accompanying a Young Man Serenading

1615

Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Robert de Baudous

Publisher, Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.2 x 29.9 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 22.6 x 30.8 cm (8 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.542

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 227, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 6, 2007; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 201, i/i

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 227, i/ii

Inscriptions

below image, at top centre: LUNA; below image, at right: HGoltzius inuentor / I. Matham sculp; R. de Baudous excud. 1615; below image: Sic IUVENES LUNAE per amica silentia multos Ille DEUS praepes caeco inflammavit.

Wikidata ID

Q76557137

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