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Object Type
Museum number: 1854,0513.159
Title: Series: Bacchus, Venus and Cupid and Ceres
Description: Venus and Cupid; Venus, half-length, holds a flaming heart and puts her arm around Cupid who holds out an arrow; oval design with in the corners doves spreading their wings above and flaming hearts pierced by crossed arrows 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: For comment see 1854,0513.158.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (154) (Hendrick Goltzius); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (67) (Saenredam); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.242.66); Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes (135); Strauss 1977 / Hendrik Goltzius: the complete engravings and woodcuts (337)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: love (allegorical); classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Aphrodite/Venus; Representation of: Eros/Cupid; 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: 1854,0513.159

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