A Blindfolded Cupid Holding a Torch Before a Couple, 1595/1596

Not on View

series Title

The Masquerades

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.9 x 17.2 cm (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 39.9 x 27.2 cm (15 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 166, State only

Accession Number

2004.21.7

Artists / Makers

Zacharias Dolendo (artist) Dutch, active 1581/1598

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist after) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Jacques de Gheyn II (publisher) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: IDGeijn. Inuen. et excu.; lower left in plate: 7

Provenance

Château de la Roche-Guyon, France (part of an album)1; (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased by NGA, 2004.

1 The album was bound in vellum, with "Abraham" on the cover and "Ligeoys" on the back cover. The Château de la Roche-Guyon stamp was on some of the pages, which included a variety of northern mannerist prints by Goltzius, Matham, Saenredam, and others. Compiled by 1610, it was apparently dismantled by Prouté before the sale of some of the prints to the NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

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

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 166, state only.