The Statue of Oceanus
1560
Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 31.4 × 42.5 cm (12 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.43
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 328, state ii/iv
Associated Artworks
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB
1544
The Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
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
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XV.267.9
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 62
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered UL: "Amice quam tu hic effigiem spectatu raram demiraris Oceani est annis superioribus Romae reperta ... Nicolao Beatricio Lotharingo gratias habe vale Romae MDLX"
Wikidata ID
Q77259646