Cupid and Psyche

c.1600

Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Cornelis Danckerts I

Publisher, Dutch, c.1601 - 1656

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38.8 × 52.8 cm (15 1/4 × 20 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.6 × 59.7 cm (18 3/4 × 23 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.574

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 70, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 21, 1988; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

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

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 51, ii/ii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 70, iii/iv

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom right: B. Sprangers in argillâ, formâ hemisphaericâ, pruis effinxit / Joan: Mullerus in aere incidebat.; below image: Qui venit ulturus praereptos Matris honores / Filuis en iaculis laeditur ipse suis. / Ut Psychen vidit, visam mox saucius ardet, / versaque in affectum paena parata fuit. / Nèc modus: hanc nexu sociat sibi deindè iugali, / Quae viuit Veneri post quoque grata nurus. / At felix Psyche est, quam sanctior ille Cupido / Usque suo praesens igne thoroque fouet.; below image, at left: Cornelus Danckert / Excudit; below image, at right: Harman Mul. excu. / 28

Wikidata ID

Q76557218

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