Jupiter and Mercury Entertained by Philemon and Baucis

1640s

Nicolaes Lauwers

Artist, Flemish, 1600 - 1652

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.4 × 56 cm (19 1/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.9 × 56.3 cm (19 1/4 × 22 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.92.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 28

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard, London (d. 1784) (Lugt 1419); (his sale, Th. Philipe, London, 3 May 1798, no. 66). Marquess of Bute, London. Professor Michael Jaffe, Cambridge (1923 - 1997). Unidentified private collector (Seeman?) not in Lugt. (Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Jacob Jordaens 1593 - 1968, Selection and Catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1968, no. 303.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

across bottom of plate: Iacques Iordaens invent et pinxit / Cum privilegio; Accubuere Dei quid agat cum Baucide coniux / Unus ubi villae pauperis anser opes? / Hunc tamen hospitibus Domini mac lare paratis, / Sed leuis annosas effugit ille manus. / Unica viuat auis vestrae custodia villae / Talibus hospitibus nam voluisse satis. / Nicolaes Lawers sculpsit

Markings

armorial

Wikidata ID

Q77008492

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