Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Freezes

1590s

Johann Matthias Kager

Artist, German, 1575 - 1634

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (hexagonal): 27.2 x 22.1 cm (10 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.128.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Netzer 1980, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen, Germany. (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Netzer, Susanne. Johann Matthias Kager, Stadtmaler von Augsburg (1575 - 1634). Munich: Stadtarchiv, 1980.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right corner in graphite: MG

Wikidata ID

Q64582051

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