Bacchus Seated on a Barrel between Amor and Music, c. 1590

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44 × 29.5 cm (17 5/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

sheet: 53.1 × 37.5 cm (20 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 477

Accession Number

2015.15.1

Artists / Makers

Jan Sadeler I (artist) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Joos van Winghe (artist after) Netherlandish, 1544 - 1603

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in plate, in image: Jodocus a Winge figuravit; lower center, on tablet in image: VOCE. MERO. FLAMIS. / DEMULCET. RECREAT. IPLET. / AURES. COR. VENAS. / MUSICA. BACHUS. AMOR. [Music, Bacchus, Love / caresses, excites, fulfills / with her voice, with drink, with fiery passion / the ears, the heart, the veins (translation by Wouter Kloek, cat. no. 230: “Joachim Wtewael, Banquet of the Gods,” in Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Nether-landish Art 1580–1620, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1993–94, p. 558.)]; lower center, in plate, below image: ILLUSTRISSmo CAROLO AB AUSTRIA SAC. ROM IMP. MARCHIO BURGO LADG NELLEB COM I HOCHEB ; Sereniss. Bavariae Duc: chalcograph Joha Sadelr sculpt. dedic.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vol. XXI (Johannes Sadeler I). Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 477.

2014: C. G. Boerner, LLC. Neue Lagerliste 133 New York, 2014: no 477.