Three Goddesses: Minerva, Juno and Venus

c. 1587

Jan van der Straet

Artist, Flemish, 1523 - 1605

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and black and red chalk heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 20 x 15.3 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.)
    support: 29.6 x 24.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.31.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vannucci 1997, no. 453


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 43.

1985

  • Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

Bibliography

1997

  • Vannucci, Alessandra Baroni. Jan van der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano: flandrus pictor et inventor. Milan, 1997.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: Joan Stradanus; in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: D 297

Wikidata ID

Q64580770


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