Mars and Venus Caught by the Gods

1580-1628

Hans Collaert the Younger

Artist, Flemish, 1566 - 1628

Philip Galle

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Philip Galle

Artist After, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Hans Collaert the Younger, after Philip Galle

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.5 × 22.6 cm (7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.8 × 23 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.548

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1167, State i/ii

  • Series Title

    The Story of Mars and Venus (Plate 4)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 6, 2006; 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. 97, only

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1167, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at lower left: Phls Galle inuen. et. excu.; in image, at lower right: Ioan. Coll. scalpsit.; below image: Ignipotens postquam valuas patefecit eburnas / Admisit superos in sua tecta Deos. / Turpia spectantes illi connubia, rident. / Haecque diu in caelo fabula nota fuit.; below image, at center: 4.

Wikidata ID

Q76557152

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