Mercury Abducting Psyche

1652

Michael Philip I

Artist, German, fl. 1652 - 1687

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash heightened with white

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 53.5 × 32.2 cm (21 1/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.778

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ian Woodner, New York; (Woodner sale, Christie's London, 7 July 1992, no. 104). (Bob. P. Haboldt & Co., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 26, 2009; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

at bottom centre, in pen and brown ink: 1 Michael (?) Pillip facit An: 1651

Watermarks

Briquet 995

Wikidata ID

Q64614618

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