Hendrick Goltzius and Jan Saenredam
Venus and Cupid
1595
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 342 × 257 mm. (13 7/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2700
One from a series of three numbered engravings, formerly attributed to Jan Saenredam, but now attributed to Hendrick Goltzius. The complete series is in the Garrett Collection (see 1946.112.13883 - 1946.112.13885), along with a second impression of "Venus and Cupid" (1984.81.2700).
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "HG"; in image, lower right, in plate "2"; below image, lower margin, in plate, two columns of text, each two lines "Immenso nostrum spectatur numen in orbe, / Et magnam pafsin vim meus ignis habet. / Non vij, non homines ulli mea spicula vitant, / His volucres figo, Squamigerumip genus."; below image, lower left, in graphite "B. 63" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9304 / 2"; lower left in graphite circle with "K.v. L" (Lugt 1651); lower center in graphite "H. Goltzius / B. 63"; lower center in graphite "B"
Markings: CM: Karl Eduard van Liphart (Lugt 1651); Claghorn
