Artist: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Title: Mercury silencing Battus (Metamorphoses by Ovid).
Signed and inscribed in plate: 4. H: swanevelt fecit Rome.
Dimensions: Image 7 3/8" x 10 1/4". Sheet 9 7/8" x 10 1/8".
Publisher: Presumably the same publisher as for the group of Swanevelts from our collection. Our assumption is based on the fact that all engravings are printed on the same paper.
Date: Plate 1629-1641.
Materials and Techniques: etching and engraving on wove paper.
Watermark: "voyage en autriche". C. 1808. The same paper was used in 1808 -1 814 for publishing: Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France. Paris 1808-1814. (Robin Halvas Ltd. Catalog III. London, 1995).
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: A tear u.m. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Bartsch. Le Peintre graveur... Vol II. p. 304. No. 95.
Part of: a companion piece to "Mercury turning Battus into stone." WOP-401.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum Sheepshanks.2266.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Dutch School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the British Museum.
This is a late impression on wove paper with a watermark.