Venus and Cupid (Three Goddesses Seated in the Clouds, Plate 2)
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
1596
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 1/16 in. (34.3 × 25.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund and the Barbara Dau '78 Fund for European Art
2019.43
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower center: HG; printed, in plate, along lower margin: Immenso nostrum spectatur numen in orbe, / Et magnam passim vim mens ignis habet. / Non Dii, non homines ulli mea spicula vitant, / His volucres figo, squamigerumqué genus; stamped, in black ink, on reverse, lower left corner: owner’s mark for Chevalier J. Camberlyn, 1783-1861
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
Chevalier J. Camberlyn (1783-1861) [Lugt 514]; Ader Auction, Estampes Anciennes et Modernes, Paris, December 2018 lot 64 (sold as Saendredam); Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2019.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein (Saenredam) 64; New Hollstein Goltzius 142 II/IV
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