Juno

1596

Hendrick Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image shows a full-length portrait of a seated woman with elaborate styling. She is positioned slightly turned to her right, wearing a flowing garment and holding a scepter. She is adorned with a beaded necklace and bracelets, and there is a peacock beside her. The surrounding frame contains intricate designs of coins, a large urn, and luxurious items. In the background, there is a sky scene with a chariot and horses, clouds swirling around, and a pastoral landscape with small figures and cattle on the ground below.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.8 x 25.3 cm (13 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.56

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 143, State only

  • Series Title

    Three Goddesses (Plate 3)

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. 65, 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. 143, only (as Goltzius)

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom centre: HG; in image, at bottom right: 3; below image: Ex me larga fluit saecundo copia cornu, / Sum gazis, opibus, divitiisqué potens. / Et soror, et coniunx Iovis, et regina Decorum, / In toto nulla est par mihi Diva polo

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: Ruth Cole (Lugt 4739)

Watermarks

present but undeciphered

Wikidata ID

Q76343285

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