Venus and Cupid
1596
Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 34.3 x 25.5 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.6 x 25.9 cm (14 x 10 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.92.55
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 1996, no. 142, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 10, 1987; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2022
The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 64, only (as Saenredam)
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 142, only (as by Goltzius)
Inscriptions
in image, at bottom centre: HG; in image, at bottom right: 2; below image: Immenso nostrum spectatur numen in orbe, / Et magnam passim vim mens ignis habet. / Non Dii, non homines ulli mea spicula vitant, / His volucres figo, squamigerumqué genus.
Markings
verso, stamped in black ink: Ruth Cole (Lugt 4739)
Watermarks
present but undeciphered
Wikidata ID
Q76343263