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Object Type
Museum number: 1957,0413.245
Title: Series: Equile Ioannis Austriaci
Description: A Centaur Family; a mother centaur nurses one of her two children, while the father centaur holds up a cub that he has brought to them, in a wooded landscape Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Print made by: Jan Collaert II; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style
Production date: 1578 (or after)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 185 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 264 millimetres (cut, text missing)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: As the print has been trimmed and lacks text in the lower margin, it is impossible to tell whether it is first or second state (not third). From the second state, this print formed part of the series of horses in the Stable of Don Juan of Austria, although initially (and logically) it has nothing to do with the rest of the series. The subject is inspired by a reference in Lucian's Zeuxis.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (567) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (692.43)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1957
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1957,0413.245

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