About the Artwork
Venus and Mars
between 1540 and 1622
Jan van der Straet (Artist) Netherlandish, 1523-1605 Johannes Collaert (Artist) Netherlandish, 1540-1622 Adriaen Collaert (Publisher) Netherlandish, 1560-1618
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (24.4 × 18.1 cm) Sheet: 10 × 7 1/2 inches (25.4 × 19.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S312
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left of image: Ioannes Collaert Sculpsit
Inscribed, in plate, lower right of image: Adrianus Collaert excudit. Inscribed, below image, lower center: VENVS ET MAVORS | Ex Lucretio | Ioannes Stadanus Belga faciebat Florentiae. Inscribed, in plate, below inscription: [Latin inscription] Inscribed, in pencil, center lower margin: Venus & Mars Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner, following initials, OE.: [numeric notation]
Provenance
June 1885, N.C. Perkins
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Johannes Collaert; after Jan van der Straet, Venus and Mars, between 1540 and 1622, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S312.
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