Venus and a Satyr, 1592

Not on View

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.4 × 22.5 cm (6 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kate Ganz

Catalogue Raisonné

Bohlin 1979, no. 17

Accession Number

2008.104.11

Artists / Makers

Annibale Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: 1592. A.C.; by later hand, lower left in green ink: Ture Lundh b. 1896 Sweden; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 30927 / gkaf; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B17 Nagler II/2 LeBlanc i/ii

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt). Kate Ganz, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Ganz, Kate, Ms.
Lundh, Ture

Exhibition History

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch 17

1979: Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 17