Mercury and the Three Graces

1589

Agostino Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.135.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bohlin 1979, no. 149, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

F. C. Grey (Lugt 1101); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, duplicate. (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1979

  • Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1979.

Inscriptions

across lower center of plate: Spectator si scire cupis quid picta tabella est, Est Iouvis filius, et Charites.; lower right in plate: Iacobus Tinctoretus pixit.; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 2.8.9; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Mercur & due Grazie, B. 117 Agostino Carracci

Wikidata ID

Q76335191

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