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From 9/20 through 9/23, visitors may only enter through the John R entrance. All other entrances, plus the museum grounds, Kirby St and Farnsworth St will be closed during this time for Concours d'Elegance.

Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis, mid-17th century

  • Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678
  • Nicolaes Lauwers, Flemish, 1600-1652

Engraving printed in black ink on wove? paper

  • Plate: 19 1/4 × 22 1/4 inches (48.9 × 56.5 cm) Sheet: 19 7/8 × 22 7/8 inches (50.5 × 58.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S680

Signed, in plate, below image, lower right: Nicolaes Lawers Sculpsit.

Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: Iacques Iordaens invent: et pinxit Inscribed, in plate, below image: [six line inscription in Latin] Inscribed, lower right corner: No. 7

November 1883, (F. Keppel & Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Nicolaes Lauwers; after Jacob Jordaens, Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis, mid-17th century, engraving printed in black ink on wove? paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S680.