The Cult of Bacchus

1596

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist After, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, after Hendrik Goltzius

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.3 x 32.3 cm (17 7/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 45.6 x 33 cm (17 15/16 x 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.608

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 71, State i/ii

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. 71, 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. 611, i/ii.

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: HG. Inuent. / Saenredam sculp; in image, at bottom centre: 3; below image: Bacche pater, prono prostrati corpore cuncti, / Suppliciter petimus, nobis tua dona secundes: / Dona, quibus maeror tristis, luctusque recedit, / Nostraque sollicitis relevantur pectora curis. C. Schonaeus

Wikidata ID

Q76557317

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