Bacchus Seated on a Barrel and Holding Grapes

1582

Jonas Silber

Artist, German, active 1572 - 1589

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    punch engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (circle, trimmed within platemark): 12.1 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5805

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 7, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich August II [1696-1763], Dresden (Lugt 972)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon. 22 vols, 1835-1852. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 22.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam, 2010: Vol. LXXVII, no. 7, i/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower right: I S / 1582; at upper left, in graphite: N14; verso, at left center, in graphite: C 19841 / J4800; at lower center, in graphite: K8721

Markings

Friedrich August II (Lugt 972);

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65023811


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