Mars and Venus

c. 1509/1516

Jacopo de' Barbari

Artist, Venetian, c. 1460/1470 - 1516 or before

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29 x 18 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.26.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.153, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

2010

  • Jan Gossaert's Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery, London, 2010-2011, not in London catalogue (shown only in New York).

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate signed with caduceus; later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 29296

Wikidata ID

Q74067272

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