Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, 1604

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 56.2 × 39.7 cm (22 1/8 × 15 5/8 in.)

sheet: 60.6 × 43.6 cm (23 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 69, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.579

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: B. Sprangers inuentor.; below image: Quid sibi vult Perseus? Sibi quid Cyllenius? addit / Alarum pedibus par, tegit ense latus. / Dîa quid hic Pallas? dat munera singula Quaenam? / Aegida. Quid? celer ad Gorgonis ora volet.; below image, at left: Ornatissimo juxtà ac Prudentissimo viro / Henrico Spieghel L. F. studiorum bonarumque / artium patrono. / L. M. Q. D. D. Ianus Muller sculptor.; below image, at right: JMuller excud. Amstelodami. / .DD.D C. IV.

Provenance

Georg Usslaub [1845-c.1929], Marseille (Lugt 1221). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 5, 1992; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.
Usslaub, Georg

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. 59, 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. 69, iii/iii