River Landscape with Mercury and Psyche

c. 1595

Simon Novellanus

Artist, German, active c. 1560/1590

Joris Hoefnagel

Publisher, Flemish, 1542 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 27.4 × 34.1 cm (10 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.402

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. A4, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1908

  • Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. A4, state i/ii.

1996

  • Serebrennikov, Nina Eugenia. "Imitating Nature / Imitiating Bruegel," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 223-246.

Inscriptions

in margin below image, in plate: Arti et ingenio stat sine morte decus. (For art and ingenuity, glory endures without end.) // Pulcher Atlantiades Psychen ad Sydera tollens, / Ingenio scandi Sydera posse docet. / Ingenio liquidum possim consendere Caelum, / Si mundi curas fata levare velint. (By raising Psyche to the stars, the handsome grandson of Atlas [Mercury] shows that with ingenuity he may ascend to the stars. With ingenuity I can ascend the clear skies, if Fate would lighten the cares of the world.) Petrus Breugel fec: Romae A[nn]o 1553. / Excud: Houf: cum prae: Caes:

Wikidata ID

Q65512404


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