Proserpine
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
about 1588-1590
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks [black, ochre and brown]
Overall: 13 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (35.2 × 26.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund, the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
PR.993.23
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in tan block: HG
Course History
ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 2.
An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Figure Studies, Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 1993-January 9, 1994.
Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to the 18th Centuries, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 24, 1994-February 5, 1995.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 17-November 20, 2005.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 2-3, ill. p. 3, fig. 4, listed p. 5, no. 2.
Nancy Bialler, Chiaroscuro Woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius and his Time, ex. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1993, pp. 133-37, no. 30c.
Bartsch, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, vol. 3, no. 236.
Walter L. Strauss, ed., Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617, The Complete Engravings and Woodcuts, New York, 1977, no. 424.
Walter L. Strauss, Chiarsoscuro, Greenwich, 1973, no. 139.
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemsih Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1965, vol. 8, no. 370.
Otto Hirschmann, Verzeichnis des graphischen Weks von Hendrick Goltzius. 1558-1617, Leipzig, 1921, no. 370.
Otto Hirschmann, Hendrick Goltzius, (Meister der Graphik 7), Leipzig, 1919, pp. 128, 134, pl. 44.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.138, ill., no. 80.
Provenance
Fussli & Companie (1755-1829), Lugt 1008, Private collection; Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1993.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 236; Hollstein 370; Strauss 424; Bialler 30; with the stamp of Fussli & Cie (1755-1829), Lugt 1008
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