Mars Sleeping

c. 1618

Jacques de Gheyn III

Artist, Dutch, c. 1596 - 1641

Hendrik Hondius I

Publisher, Dutch, 1573 - 1649 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18 x 16.5 cm (7 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 x 17.2 cm (7 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 18, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Incorporated, New York); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2000, "De Gheyn III," no. 18, state iii/iii.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: HDG (in monogram); lower left in plate: N. de Clerc exc. Hh.; lower center in plateMavors quivscit lauratus altris / Quiescat in Bonum usquè et usquè publicum; lower right in plate: OH

Wikidata ID

Q76342704

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