Venus and Bacchus

1556

Netherlandish 16th Century

Artist

Cornelis Cort

Artist, Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    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.)

  • Accession

    2017.194.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

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)

Inscriptions

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

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