Cupid Balancing on a Globe, 1533

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut inside platemark): 11.9 x 6.8 cm (4 11/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 32, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2005.90.1

Artists / Makers

Master H.L. (artist) German, active 1516/1530

Image Use

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Inscription

in print, on sword blade: H L(backwards); in print, top right: 1553; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 777 / B. VIII S. 37 no 6

Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2005, no. 5201); (via C.G. Boerner, New York and Düsseldorf); purchased by NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Galerie Gerda Bassenge
Lanna, Adalbert von, Baron

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