Mercury Abducting Psyche, c. 1597

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portfolio Title

Mercury Abducting Psyche

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.7 × 26 cm (19 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

sheet: 52 × 27.5 cm (20 1/2 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 84, State iii/iv

Accession Number

2022.24.3

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Adriaen de Vries (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1556 - 1626

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Inscription

on pedestal at bottom, in plate: IVSSV RHVDOLPHI .II. CAESARIS AVGVSTI, / ADRIANVS DE VRIES HAGIENSIS FACIEBAT PRAGAE. / OPVS ALTITVDINIS PEDVM OCTO. EX AERE . 1593.; left of pedestal, in plate: Joan. Muller. sculp.; right of pedestal, in plate: Harman Muller / excudebat.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(sale, Tajan, Paris, 7 April 2006, no. 21); (Hill-Stone, New York); Saul Steinberg, New York; (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2022 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999: no. 84, iii/iv.