Venus

Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.5 x 14.2 cm (3 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.9 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.76.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 845, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Emma Regina Martin, 1833(?): Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH. (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1993

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 845, state only.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: W. Hollar fecit; lower center in plate: VENVS; lower right in plate: ex Collectione Arundelliana / Adam Elsheimer pinxit; lower center in by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: O. Venus after / Elsheimer / P. 271; by later hand, upper center in brown ink: Marsh E(not deciphered)ht. 1833

Wikidata ID

Q76558916


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