The Fight between Ulysses and Irus

1589

Hendrick Goltzius

Publisher, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Jan Muller, after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

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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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