Bacchus en Erigone, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, after Perino del Vaga, 1515 - 1565

Title(s)

Loves of the Gods (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-35.613

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 14
• Bartsch 14
• Aantal staten bekend-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Bacchus en Erigone zitten naakt en met hun benen verstrengeld. Bij hun voeten ligt een leeuw. In de ondermarge Italiaans vers in twee kolommen.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
• after design by: Perino del Vaga

Place

Italy

Dating

1515 - 1565

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 215 mm × width 136 mm

What

• Erigone and Bacchus, the latter possibly in the shape of a bunch of grapes
• love-affairs of Bacchus ~ females

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Art and love in renaissance Italy, Andrea Bayer, Beverly Louise Brown, Sarah Cartwright, p. 205, afb. 101e, cat.nr. 101e
• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 28, p. 91, cat.nr. 14
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 15, p. 74, cat.nr. 14
• J.G. Turner, 'Caraglio's Loves of the Gods', Print Quarterly 24 (2007), p. 359-380.