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Object Type
Museum number: 1854,0513.158
Title: Series: Bacchus, Venus and Cupid and Ceres
Description: Bacchus, half-length, holding up a drinking vessel with two handles and holding bunches of grapes accompanied by a young satyr; oval design with in the corners grotesque masks above and wine glasses below Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Hendrik Goltzius; Print made by: Jan Saenredam (formerly attributed to)
School/style
Production date: 1595 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres; Width: 182 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of three numbered engravings, formerly attributed to Jan Saenredam (Hollstein 66-68) but now attributed to Hendrick Goltzius (New Hollstein 144-146); for a complete set see 1856,0815.158-160.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (144) (Hendrick Goltzius); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (66.I) (Saenredam); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.242.65); Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes (134); Strauss 1977 / Hendrik Goltzius: the complete engravings and woodcuts (336)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical deity; satyr
Associated names: Representation of: Dionysos/Bacchus; Associated with: Cornelis Schonaeus (author of Latin verses); Associated with: Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (dedicatee)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1854
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1854,0513.158

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