About the Artwork
Venus and Anchises
between 1650 and 1686
After Annibale Carracci (Artist) Italian, 1560-1609 Carlo Cesio (Artist) Italian, 1626-1686 Arnold van Westerhout (Publisher) Flemish, 1651-1725
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (23.2 × 21.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S275
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, as part of the image, lower right: GENVS VNDE | LATINVM. Inscribed, lower left: Ann. Caracci Inv. Inscribed, lower center: C. Cesius del. et Sculp. Romae. Inscribed, lower right: Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis.
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1885 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink, verso]
Provenance
August 1885, N.C. Perkins.Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Carlo Cesio; after Annibale Carracci, Venus and Anchises, between 1650 and 1686, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S275.
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