Lente, anonymous, after Jacob Matham, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1606

Title(s)

Lente
Ver (title on object)
De vier seizoenen (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2004-46

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 672-copy e
  Remark: Hendrick Goltzius
• Bartsch 140-(kopie)
  Remark: Matham

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• title: ‘VER’

Description

De personificatie van de lente, naakte met bladerkroon op het hoofd en mand met bloemen in de rechterhand. Bovenaan de drie sterrenbeelden Ram, Stier en Tweelingen.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after print by: Jacob Matham
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Place

print maker: Netherlands
publisher: Amsterdam

Dating

1606

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 71 mm × width 41 mm

What

• spring, 'Ver'; 'Primavera' (Ripa)
• zodiacal signs of the spring season

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 28-Nov-2003

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. 4, p. 70, cat.nr. 672 copy e