Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
1585
Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 42 x 31 cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
sheet: 44.1 x 32.4 cm (17 3/8 x 12 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2012.92.649
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 1996, no. 150, State i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 13, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.
Bibliography
1921
Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie; no. 137, i/iii
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 150, i/iii
Inscriptions
in image, at bottom left, in plate: HGoltzius Invenit / Sculpsit et divul / gavit. / Ao 1585; below image, in plate: Ut Phoebus nitido lascivum lumine Martem, / Et Paphiae prodit turpiae furta Deae: / Sic fucata Deus sceleratae crimina vitae / Cernit, et occultum non sinit esse nefas. (As Phoebus with his shining light betrays the debauchery of Mars and the secret infamies of Fenus, so God sees the gross transgressions of people who live in crime and He does not allow the sin to remain hidden. [translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 50.)]
Wikidata ID
Q76557564