Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women

1612

Paulus Moreelse

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1638

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in black and gray on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24 x 29.4 cm (9 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.10.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rijksmuseum Print Cabinet, Amsterdam (Lugt1838 & 699). Leonard Baskin, Leeds, MA (Lugt 4473 & 4475)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

recto: across top in plate inscription in 4 lines w/ break in center; lower left in plate: PMorelse / 1612; verso: at center in black ink: L. & L. Baskin / 1965 (Lugt 4475); in blue pencil: 44: 1377

Markings

verso: Rijksmuseum Print Cabinet (Lugt1838 & 699); Leonard Baskin (Lugt 4473)

Watermarks

Shield

Wikidata ID

Q74067169

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