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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R5262
People
Frans van den Wyngaerde, Flemish (1614 - 1679)
after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Bacchus and Drunken Silenus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1640-1660
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250199

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and engraving on off white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 36.7 x 46.1 cm (14 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
platemark: 34.3 x 43.6 cm (13 1/2 x 17 3/16 in.)
image: 32.4 x 42.6 cm (12 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center in graphite: JWR:"Bacchanals with a sleeping satyr, see Nagler vol 22 p 155 (proof), see Andresen no 6 under Wyngaerde, B Antwerp 1512, D 1560"
  • inscription: lower left of image etched in plate: Petrus Paulus Rubenius pinxit
  • inscription: lower right of image etched in plate: Franciscus vanden Wyngaerde fecit/ aqua forti excudi Antuerpiae
  • inscription: on verso, lower right in graphite: see Hymans p. 427

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
proof
Standard Reference Number
W. 13; LeB. 15; H. 15 (under Wyngaerde); Schneevoogt 132.123

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R5262
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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