The Fight between Ulysses and Irus

1589

Jan Muller, after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

Associated Names
Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Hendrick Goltzius

Publisher, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

Artist After, Dutch, 1562 - 1638

This is a drawing of a group of figures in an architectural setting. It depicts several muscular figures in dynamic poses. The central focus is a robust, nude male figure with his back to the viewer. Surrounding figures are clothed and appear to interact with the central figure. Another figure in the foreground appears to be reclining. The background features classical architecture with columns and a dome structure. The figures are detailed with lines and shading, conveying movement and vitality.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 42.6 x 32.8 cm (16 3/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.7 x 34.1 cm (18 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 30, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 4, 1988; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 52, i/iii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 30, i/iii

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom right: Ao 1589 / C. Cornelij Harlemensis Inuent. HGoltzius excud.; below image: Sponsos Penelopes, et mendicabulum vt Irum / Audyt a Troia rediens Ithacensis Vlysses / Non tulit indignum facinus, seque ipse recingens / Mendicante habitu, reiectoque inde torosa / Multa diu passo tandem Victoria cedit. / Membra reuelauit, cunctisque stupentibus Irum / Guttere colliso strauit Laertius heros. / Post potitur votis, turba strataque procorum / Coniugis amplexu gaudet securus amatae. / F. E.; outside plate mark, at bottom right, in pen and brown ink by a later hand: 73 / I.(?)6.

Wikidata ID

Q75122269

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