Mercury Falling in Love with Herse, 1590

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series Title

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Part II (plate 17)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 17.8 x 25.2 cm (7 x 9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 19.5 x 26.9 cm (7 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Hack

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 568, State i/ii

Accession Number

2008.55.5

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower left in plate: 17. Palladis Actee sacrata in templa... / ...Hec visa est reliques dignior una Deo; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 500/91002

Provenance

Unidentified private collector; D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalia (Lugt 567); Charles Hack, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Arenberg, A. d', Prince
Hearn Family Trust

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 67

1949: Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: no. 544.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 568, i/ii.