Phoebus Telling Vulcan of His Wife's Adultery
1580-1628
Artist, Flemish, 1566 - 1628
Publisher, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 18.5 × 22.3 cm (7 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)
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Accession
2012.92.645
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1165, State i/ii
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. 95, 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. 1165, i/ii
Inscriptions
in image, at lower centre: Phls Galle inuentor et excu / Joan. Col. scalp.; below image: Confestim Veneris spectacula visa marito / Sol monstrat, vetiti concubitusque locum. / Ille inflammatus Phaebi sermone sabrili / Apta operae manibus projicit arma suis.; below image, at center: 2 (in reverse)
Wikidata ID
Q76557557