Venus and Cupid

Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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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

Portfolio / Series Title

Plate 2 from Three Goddesses Seated in the Clouds

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

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

Course History

CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2020

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.

Works on Paper: Studies in Contrast, Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, January 14-April 9, 2023.

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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