Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
1585
Engraving on laid paper
Overall: 16 9/16 × 12 1/16 in. (42.1 × 30.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2005.65.1
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: HGoltzius Invenit / Sculpsit et diuul.. / gavit. / A 1585.; inscribed, in plate, bottom left: Ut Phabus nitido lasciuum lumine Martem, / Et Paphiae prodit turpia furta Deae:; inscribed, in plate, bottom right: sic fucata Deus sceleratae crimina vitae / cernit, et occultum non finit esse nefas.
Course History
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 21, 2019-January 27, 2020.
Provenance
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2005.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 139; Hirschmann 137
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