Venus and Mercury

c.1600

Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Herman Jansz Muller

Publisher, Netherlandish, c. 1540 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.2 x 28 cm (15 13/16 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 42.7 x 30.8 cm (16 13/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.584

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 68, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 23, 1985; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

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. 63, only

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999: no. 68, ii/iv.

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: B / Sprangers Antus inuent.; in image, at bottom right: Joan Muller sculp.; below image: Ad Veneris furtum faciunt vt pocula Bacchi, / Sic facit et plectro lingua diserta suo. / Exemplum est buius cursor Cyllenius artis, / Vt nouit viuis Ida perennis aquis; below image, at bottom right: JMuller. excud. Amster.

Watermarks

Strasburg Lily in Shield with WR below

Wikidata ID

Q76557244

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