Venus en Cupido, anonymous, after Hendrick Goltzius, after Jan Saenredam, 1595 - 1667

Title(s)

Venus en Cupido

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2005-170

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 145-copy
• Bartsch 65-( kopie)
  Remark: Saenredam

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Venus met brandend hart in de hand, neerkijkend op Cupido naast haar. In de bovenhoeken duiven, in de onderhoeken brandende harten met pijlen doorboord.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after print by: Hendrick Goltzius
• after print by: Jan Saenredam (rejected attribution)
• Cornelius Schonaeus

Place

Netherlands

Dating

1595 - 1667

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 251 mm × width 182 mm

What

• Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 2-Dec-2004

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, dl. 1, p. 230, cat.nr. 145 copy