Mercury Presiding Over the Visual and Rhetoric Arts

1596

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.6 × 17.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 × 25.6 cm (14 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.31.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 55, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Nicolaas Teeuwisse, OHG, Berlin); purchased 2022 by NGA.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXIII: no. 55, 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. 662, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

in image, lower left, in plate: 6; below image, in plate: Me Dys commendat facunde gratia lingue, / Et varia rudibus monstro mortalibus artes; outside of plate, at left, in black ink by a later hand: G6

Markings

none

Watermarks

shield with three fleur de lys

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