About the Artwork
Tantalus
1588
After Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (Artist) Dutch, 1562 - 1638 Hendrick Goltzius (Artist) Dutch, 1558-1617
Engraving printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Plate (diameter): 13 1/8 inches (33.3 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (34.9 × 35.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of DIA 125th Anniversary
2011.1.1
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Markings
Inscribed, lower center: C.C. Pictor Juue. Nioltzius Sculpt. | Ao 1588 Inscribed, in circular border, clockwise from upper center: TANTALVS IN MDYS RESIDENS SITIT ARIDVS VNDIS. QVAM MISER, INTER OPES QVI MALE VIVIR INOPS; HAVD BONA FORTVNÆ QVISQVAM PVTET ESSE BEATA, ILLA BONIS PROSVNT, ILLA NOCENTO MALIS.
Provenance
Rumbler.Le Tout Venant (Nivelles, Belgium).
Roger Coisman (Brussels, Belgium).
2011-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 11.
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Hendrick Goltzius; after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Tantalus, 1588, engraving printed in black ink on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of DIA 125th Anniversary, 2011.1.1.
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