M24394: Marriage for Worldly Love Officiated by Cupid
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M24394
- People
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Jan Saenredam, Dutch (Zaandam 1565 - 1607 Assendelft)
After Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
- Title
- Marriage for Worldly Love Officiated by Cupid
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Three Kinds of Marriage
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1595
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/179587
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23.3 x 16.3 cm (9 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower left corner of design area: HG[monogram]oltzius Inuent. / IS[monogram]aenredam. Sculp. / 1.
- inscription: in plate, in lower margin: Coniugium quod turpis amor, fedusq Cupido / Copulat, instabile est, et mox peritura voluptas. / C. Schoeus
- collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: NJL [monogram; Norman Jack Leitman (Lugt 4545)]
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: X
- watermark: [symbol of Basel?]
- collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M24394
- inscription: verso, brown ink, extremely faded: [widely spaced symbols or letters on four lines arranged symmetrically, perhaps:] 4 / A . L / n. ? G ? / f
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Norman J. Letiman, New York, London, and San Diego (Lugt 4545). Robert M. Light, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2000
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (Goltzius) 525, Bartsch 84; Hollstein 107; Filedt Kok 128
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert M. Light
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- M24394
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Walter Melion and James Clifton, Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, exh. cat., ed. Cynthia Blakeley, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art (Atlanta, 2019), cat. no. 37, repr.
Exhibition History
- Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Atlanta, 08/31/2019 - 12/01/2019
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