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Abraham de Bruyn

Venus, 1569

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series Title

The Seven Planets

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 4.1 × 3.2 cm (1 5/8 × 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 120, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.2126

Artists / Makers

Abraham de Bruyn (artist) Netherlandish, 1540 - 1587

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Inscription

upper left, in plate: 5; upper center, in plate: VENVS / [astrological sign]; upper right, in plate: 1569 / ADB [artist's monogram]

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951: IV, no. 48.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Abraham de Bruijn, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2017: Part I, no. 120.

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