Phaeton

1588

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33 x 33.1 cm (13 x 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 33 x 34.1 cm (13 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.124

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 327, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Norman Jack Leitman [b. 1943], San Diego (Lugt 4545). (R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased November 20, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie; no. 308, i/iii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 327, ii/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom centre: C. C. Pictor. Inue. HG. Sculp. 3; around image: NON AMBIRE PROBAT SAPIENS SED LAVDAT HONORES, LAVDAT, CONTINGANT IS TAMEN ILLA PROBIS. SIC PHAETONTAEUS NIMINVM TEMERARIA LAPSVS VOTA DOCET TANDEN FINE CARERE BONO. (A wise man does not approve ambition, but prizes expressions of praise; he prizes them if they go to good people. Thus the fall of Phaeton teaches us that impetuosity comes to a bad end. [Latin translation from Huigen Leeflang and Ger Luijten, et. al, Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings Exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p.98.])

Watermarks

Fleur de Lys and "H" countermark (Honig paper?)

Wikidata ID

Q76555575

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