Icarus

1588

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Allen R. Adler and Frances Beatty

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.3 × 33.3 cm (13 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.) (roundel, cut within platemark)

  • Accession Number

    2013.154.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 326, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), Paris (Lugt 1790). Allen R. Adler and Dr. Frances F.L. Beatty, New York; gift to NGA., 2013.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • _The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700 (Goltzius), no. 326

Inscriptions

recto: in image, at bottom center: C. C. Pictor Inue / HG. sculp. 2; around image: SCIRE, DEI MVNVS, DIVINVM EST NOSCERE VELLE, SED FAS LIMITIBVS SE TENVISSE. / DVM SIBI QVISQUE SAPIT, NEC IVSTI EXAMINA CERNIT, ICARVS ICARYS NOMINA DONAT AQUIS. (It is something divine to want to acquire knowledge, the gift of God, but man must keep to his limits. As long as everyone has his own wisdom and does not keep the right measure in mind, Icarus gives his name to the Icarian Sea. [Latin translation from Huigen Leeflang and Ger Luijten, et. al, Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings Exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p.98.]); verso: at lower center in brown ink: P. Mariette 1664 (Lugt 1790)

Watermarks

coat-of-arms with fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q77006238

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