Flora, 1564

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series Title

Pastoral Nymphs and Goddesses

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 27 × 19.5 cm (10 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 158, State i/iii

Accession Number

2021.112.3

Artists / Makers

Cornelis Cort (artist) Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Frans Floris I (artist after) Flemish, c. 1519 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

n plate, at top: FLORA; in plate, at lower left: 1; in plate, at lower right: FF; in plate, along bottom: CHLORIS ERAM, QVAE FLORA VOCOR. OVID.; verso: in graphite, at upper right: 65294 [circled]; in graphite, along bottom: pastoral nymph and goddesses (I/IIII) / 90R11

Provenance

(Old Master Print, Izegem, Belgium); David McDonnell, Washington DC, purchased 2013; gift to NGA, 2021

Associated Names

McDonnell, David H.
Old Master Print

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 158, i/iii