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Inscription

in image, at bottom centre: B. Spranger. Inuentor. H Goltzius sculptor. / Ao 1588; below image: Mundi oculus Phaebus, mundi Iux, omnia ceruit, / Sub nitido arcanum est Sole, latensqué nihil. / Martis adulterium blanda cum Ciipride, nexu / Mulciberis, dictis praebet abunde fidem. / Nudus uterqué iacet: nil sic caelatur, at atra / Nax operit, prodat quin, referetqué dies.

Provenance

Kungliga Museum, Stockholm (Lugt 1683); (sale, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1903-1904 (Lugt 1982)). Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt); (Christie's, London, June 26, 1985, lot 128); (via David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Exhibition History

2013
Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

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. 321, i/iv
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 340, i/iv

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