Venus and Bacchus, 1556

Not on View

engraving on laid paper

plate: 21.8 × 29.9 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 22.6 × 30.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

New Hollstein, no. R36 (as "unidentified Antwerp printmaker")

2017.194.1

Cornelis Cort (artist) Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

lower right in plate: H. Cock excud 1556; lower center in plate: VT VENVS ENERVAT VIRES SIC COPIA BACCHI.

(Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Bareggi, Silvana

1948: Bierens de Haan, Johan Catharinus Justus. L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais. The Hague, 1948: no. 154 (as Cort)

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Cornelis Cort, compiled by Manfred Sellink). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2000: no. R36 (rejected as Cort); (Frans Floris, compiled by Edward H. Wouk). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: no. R14 (rejected as Floris)