Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus

c. 1600

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Jacques Razet

Publisher, Dutch, active 1589 - 1609

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27 x 20.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.605

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 75, State ii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E. Fabricius [d. 1920], Berlin (Lugt 919bis, Lugt 847a). Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt); (Christie's, London, June 26, 1985, lot 138); (via David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; 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. 75, ii/iii

Inscriptions

below image: SINE CERERE ET BACCHO TRIGET VENUS. / Ipsa Venus venersqué puer torpedine frigent, / Si genialis abest Bacchus et alma Ceres. / Lui sapit haud blando nimis indulgebit Amori, / Nec repetet vini pocula crebra nimis. / Immoderata etenim Veneris Bacchiqué cupido / Enervat vires, ingeniumque necat. / Tunc probitas, omnis pudor, et reverentia cedunt: / In quorum subeunt furta, dolique locum. SHS; below image, at bottom left: Abrah. Blom. inv. I. Saenredam sculps; below image, at bottom right: Iacobus Razet divulgavit

Wikidata ID

Q76557309


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