Mars Presiding Over the Arts of War

1596

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.3 × 17.9 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 × 25.3 cm (14 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.31.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 52, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXIII: no. 52, ii/ii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, no. 659, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

in image, lower left, in plate: 3; below image, in plate: Cernitur in dubio mea magua potentia bello, / Per me mores tristis, per me victoria leta; outside of plate, at left, in black ink by a later hand: G3

Markings

none

Watermarks

shield with three fleur de lys

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