A Grotesque with Diana of Ephesus and Diverse Animals, 1555

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 42.2 x 16.8 cm (16 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 2, State only

Accession Number

1998.34.1

Artists / Makers

Master AP (artist) Italian, active mid 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: AP (in monogram); upper left in plate: 1555; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Ma AP Bartsch 2; center verso in gray ink: Vostre

Provenance

(Artemis, London); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

Exhibition History

2000: The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1858: Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Kunstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919.

1986: Boorsch, Suzanne and John Spike. The Illustrated Bartsch (31). p. 381.