Plate 39: Three Puppies with a Crate and a Bunch of Grapes, 1580

Inscription

upper center in black ink: ALITER CATVLI LONGE OLENT ALITER SVES.; center right in (gold?): XXXIX.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; on trough in lower left of image in (gold?): Ao.80; lower center in red ink: CATVLVS LEONEM.; lower center in black ink: VINVM novum Amicus novus, veterascet et cum iucunditate bibes illud. Ecc.[us] 9. (“A new friend is new wine; when it is old, you will drink it with pleasure.” Ecclesiasticus 9:15) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Vt sapiant fatuae fabrorum prandia Betae / O, quam s[a]epe petet vina, piperq[ue] coquus.; lower center in brown ink:VINA sitim sedant, natis Venus alma creandis / serviat: hos fines transilysse nocet.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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