Cereris Bacchique Amicus (A Friend of Ceres and Bacchus)

1695

Cornelis Dusart

Artist, Dutch, 1660 - 1704

Jacob Gole

Publisher, Dutch, 1660 - 1724

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.5 x 19.4 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.1 x 21 cm (11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.69.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 93, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Bergquist, Boston); purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Everyday Life in Black and White. Dutch Mezzotints from the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, 2008, no catalogue.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 93, iii/iii

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: CERERIS BACCHIQUE AMICUS / Ik lach ... den grooten Woljam zwicht. / A. Bógaert. / Ik drink dees roemer uyt op d'welraart van Oranje, En roep vast over luyt Victori met Britanje. / C. Dusart inv. J.Gole Excudit Amstelodami cum Privilegio Ord. Holl. et West=Frisiae.; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: No 7.

Watermarks

High crown with fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q75397450

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