The Cult of Venus

1596

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, after Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist After, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image shows a woman on the left holding a flaming heart, with a winged cherub next to her. On the right, a man kneels next to a woman who is holding a flower. Other figures are partially visible in the background. The setting includes a landscape and a chariot pulled by two horses in the sky. The scene is engraved with fine lines and detailed.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.9 x 32 cm (17 11/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.607

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 70, State i/ii

  • Series Title

    The Cults of Ceres, Venus and Bacchus (Plate 2)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 17, 2007; 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. 70, i/ii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 610, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: HG Inue. / I. S. sculp. / 2; below image: O Citherea, tuos placido nos respice vultu, / Tuqué Cupido puer: quorum vis magna supernos, / Infernosqué Deos, genus et mortale lacessit: Et quorum number ulla potentia vitat. C. Schonaeus

Wikidata ID

Q76557315

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