The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
1562
Engraver, Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580
Publisher, Italian, 1469 - 1606
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 46.6 × 30.4 cm (18 3/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.32
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 333, state ii/iv
Associated Artworks
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
Forma Partis Templi Divi Petri [Exterior Section of Saint Peter's Basilica]
Italian 16th Century, Vincenzo Luchino
1564
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 67.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam, 1954-1868: III.150.14.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered LR: "Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit"
Lettered LC: "Pyhhri Molossorum regis imperatorum sui temporis fortissimi et rei miliaris peritissimi ducis Simulachrum ... Ant. Salamanca aeneis typis suis delineavit et publicae studiosorum utilitati Anno MDLXII in lucem misit"
Wikidata ID
Q77259623