Venus and Adonis, Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1585 - c. 1590

Identification

Title(s)

Venus and Adonis

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-3888

Description

Venus en Adonis. Adonis, met twee jachthonden, neemt afscheid van de naakte Venus om op jacht te gaan. Linksonder zit Cupido. De handeling vindt plaats in een bergachtig landschap met saters, nimfen en berggeiten, in de verte een kasteel. Rechts drinken twee duiven bij een beekje.

Creation

Artist

painter: Bartholomeus Spranger

Dating

c. 1585 - c. 1590

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 135 cm × width 109 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1955

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950, London), London (Sotheby’s), 9 December 1953, no. 13, £ 850 to the dealer W.M. Sabin;{Copy RMA} …; the Arcade Gallery, London, 1954;{Note RKD.} from whom, fl. 19,213.79, to the museum, 1955

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Bartholomeus Spranger : splendor and eroticism in imperial Prague : the complete works, Sally Metzler, p. 128-129, cat.nr. 57
Het wonder van Adriaen de Vries : van ons allemaal sinds 2014, Fusien Bijl de Vroe, Frits Scholten, Bieke van der Mark, p. 22, afb. 6
The pictorialization of Dürer's drawings in Northern Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Kayo Hirakawa, p. 114, 133
The school of Prague : painting at the court of Rudolf II, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, cat.nr. 20.43
Die Tafelbilder Bartholomäus Sprangers (1546-1611) : höfische Malerei zwischen "Manierismus" und "Barock", Michael Henning, cat.nr. A30
Die stilistische Entwicklung im Werk Bartholomäus Sprangers, Konrad Oberhuber, cat.nr. G1
De triomf van het maniërisme : de Europese stijl van Michelangelo tot El Greco, p. 85, cat.nr. 108
Aanwinsten : 1 Mei 1954 - 1 Juni 1955
Fucikova, Eliska, 'Umelci na dvore Rudolfa II. A jejich vztah k tvorbe Albrechta Dürera', Umeni 20 (1972), p. 347-362.

Persistent URL

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