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Venus and Cupid
Public Domain

Hendrick Goltzius and Jan Saenredam

Venus and Cupid

1596

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Venus and Cupid

1596

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 342 × 257 mm. (13 7/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 2 from the series "Three Goddesses"
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 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

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1558-1617

Dutch, 1558-1617
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Previously attributed to

Jan Saenredam

Dutch, 1565-1607

Dutch, 1565-1607
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