Mercury and the Three Graces, 1589

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bohlin 1979, no. 149, State i/iii

Accession Number

2002.135.1

Artists / Makers

Agostino Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

Jacopo Tintoretto (artist after) Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594

Image Use

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Inscription

across lower center of plate: Spectator si scire cupis quid picta tabella est, Est Iouvis filius, et Charites.; lower right in plate: Iacobus Tinctoretus pixit.; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 2.8.9; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Mercur & due Grazie, B. 117 Agostino Carracci

Provenance

F. C. Grey (Lugt 1101); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, duplicate. (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

Exhibition History

2019: Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1979: Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1979.