Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus, c. 1600

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27 x 20.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 75, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.605

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Abraham Bloemaert (artist after) Dutch, 1566 - 1651

Jacques Razet (publisher) Dutch, active 1589 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

below image: SINE CERERE ET BACCHO TRIGET VENUS. / Ipsa Venus venersqué puer torpedine frigent, / Si genialis abest Bacchus et alma Ceres. / Lui sapit haud blando nimis indulgebit Amori, / Nec repetet vini pocula crebra nimis. / Immoderata etenim Veneris Bacchiqué cupido / Enervat vires, ingeniumque necat. / Tunc probitas, omnis pudor, et reverentia cedunt: / In quorum subeunt furta, dolique locum. SHS; below image, at bottom left: Abrah. Blom. inv. I. Saenredam sculps; below image, at bottom right: Iacobus Razet divulgavit

Provenance

E. Fabricius [d. 1920], Berlin (Lugt 919bis, Lugt 847a). Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt); (Christie's, London, June 26, 1985, lot 138); (via David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Fabricius, E.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Lundh, Ture
Tunick, Inc., David

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. 75, ii/iii