Venus en Amor op de wolken, Jacob Matham (attributed to), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1599 - 1603

Title(s)

Venus en Amor op de wolken

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1904-28

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 340-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: ‘F. Rechberger 1802’Lugt 2133

Description

Venus en Amor op de wolken. Amor met pijlenkoker en boog, op de achtergrond Venus in haar door twee zwanen getrokken wagen. In de lucht twee duiven.

Artist

• print maker: Jacob Matham (attributed to)
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jacob Matham (mentioned on object)
• Rudolf II van Habsburg (Duits keizer) (mentioned on object)

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1599 - 1603

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 353 mm × width 270 mm

What

• (story of) Venus (Aphrodite)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 22-Mar-1904

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Mars op de wolken

• Jacob Matham, Léna Widerkehr, dl. III, p. 77, cat.nr. 340