Loves of the Gods, 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-35.615

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 12
• Bartsch 12
• Aantal staten bekend-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Mercurius betreedt de kamer van Herse, op wie hij verliefd is geworden. Herse ligt naakt op bed. Aglauros, de jaloerse zuster van Herse, probeert Mercurius tegen te houden. In de ondermarge Italiaans vers in twee kolommen.

Artist

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

Place

Italy

Dating

1515 - 1565

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 211 mm × width 134 mm

What

• (story of) Mercury (Hermes)
• Mercury and Herse, daughter of Cecrops

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Art and love in renaissance Italy, Andrea Bayer, Beverly Louise Brown, Sarah Cartwright, p. 205, afb. 101d, cat.nr. 101d
• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 28, p. 89, cat.nr. 12
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 15, p. 73, cat.nr. 12
• J.G. Turner, 'Caraglio's Loves of the Gods', Print Quarterly 24 (2007), p. 359-380.