The Rape of Proserpina

1592/1607

Giuseppe Scolari

Artist, Venetian, before 1564 - 1625

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut and wood engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.6 × 35 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 in.), cut to image

  • Accession

    2016.170.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Passavant 1860 - 1864, no. 67

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Adelbert von Lanna [1836 - 1909], Prague (Lugt 2773); (Galerie Arnot, Vienna); Dr. Julius Hofmann [1840 - 1913]. Carlsbad (Lugt 1264); Friedrich W. Quiring, Eberswalde [b. 1886] (Lugt 1041c), after 1921; Unidentified collector [illegible mark]; (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1860

  • Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864: no. 67

1976

  • Rosand, David and Michelangelo Muraro. Titian and the Venetian Woodcut. Washington, D.C., 1976: no. 104B (ii/ii)

Wikidata ID

Q77258376

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