Venus Presiding Over the Arts of Love
1596
Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 25.5 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.6 × 25.2 cm (14 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.31.5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 54, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXIII: no. 54, ii/ii.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, no. 661, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
in image, lower left, in plate: 5; below image, in plate: Accendo iuvenum curas ego mater amoris, / Adiuvat et natus vibrans sua tela Cupido; outside of plate, at left, in black ink by a later hand: G5
Markings
none
Watermarks
shield with three fleur de lys