Skip to main content
Venus Protecting Aeneas
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, and others

Venus Protecting Aeneas

c. 1654

Scroll

Venus Protecting Aeneas

c. 1654

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 256 × 191 mm. (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2296

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom center, in plate "Æ.10.l.450"; in image, bottom right, in plate "F. Cleyn inv: W. Hollar fecit," Verso: top center, in ink "742"; center, in ink "561"' upper center, in pencil "F 81" (?); lower left corner, in pencil "Fox / 4 / [indecipheable]"; lower left corner, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6273" inside

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: countermark with initials "IP"

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

Meet Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist

Franz Cleyn

German, 1582-1658

Meet Franz Cleyn

Publisher

John Ogilby

(English, 1600-1676)

Meet John Ogilby

Explore the Collection Further

Wenceslaus Hollar, Claudine Stella, and others
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
c. 1670
Benjamin West
Study for "Venus Requesting Armor for Aeneas from Vulcan"
c. 1760-1792
Wenceslaus Hollar, Claudine Stella, and others
The Last Supper
c. 1670
Peter Bradley
Oblivious Venus
1974
Wenceslaus Hollar and Jan Brueghel the Younger
The Four Windmills
1650
Margaret Burroughs
Black Venus
1957
Unknown Artist and Wenceslaus Hollar
Peter von Serin, Hungarian General
n.d.
Rockwell Kent
Venus and Adonis
1936
Wenceslaus Hollar and Joseph Heintz II
Holy Family
1627
Frans de Neve and Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi
Landscape with Cupid Bathing, Being Watched by Venus
c. 1642 - 1687
Thomas Milton and Paolo Veronese [Caliari]
Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis
1817