Herman van Swanevelt
Venus Offering Diana a Choice Between Cupid and Adonis
1653
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Herman van Swanevelt
Venus Offering Diana a Choice Between Cupid and Adonis
1653
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 397 × 453 mm. (15 5/8 × 17 13/16 in.)
Plate: 251 × 332 mm. (9 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 3 from the series "The Story of Adonis"
Credit Line
Gift of Byron R. Cheadle, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
2001.341
Plate 3 from the series of six prints "The Story of Adonis"; plates 1 and 5 from the series are in the Garrett Collection (1946.112.4290 and 1946.112.4791).
Rand Cheadle, Washington, D.C.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: below image, center, in plate "3"; below image, lower left, in plate "Diane trouie Venus, Venus Nepouvant eschapper Courut a la Ruze et / fit Naiftre deux Aifles a Adonis Conforme a Cupidon et donoit a Choifir"; below image, lower right, in plate "Mais Diane prudente aymoit de guiter Adonis que de faire Vn / Choix perillieux ainsy Adonis demeura entre les Mains de Venus"; below image, lower center, in plate "Herman van Swaneuelt fecit Cum preuilegio Regis 1654"
Markings: CM: none
