Venus

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.5 x 14.2 cm (3 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 9.9 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 845, State only

Accession Number

2011.76.1

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Adam Elsheimer (artist after) German, 1578 - 1610

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: W. Hollar fecit; lower center in plate: VENVS; lower right in plate: ex Collectione Arundelliana / Adam Elsheimer pinxit; lower center in by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: O. Venus after / Elsheimer / P. 271; by later hand, upper center in brown ink: Marsh E(not deciphered)ht. 1833

Provenance

Emma Regina Martin, 1833(?): Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH. (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Baldwin-Wallace College
Martin, Emma Regina
Schulman, Susan

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1993: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 845, state only.