Bacchus Seated on a Barrel and Holding Grapes, 1582

Not on View

Medium

punch engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (circle, trimmed within platemark): 12.1 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 7, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.5805

Artists / Makers

Jonas Silber (artist) German, active 1572 - 1589

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower right: I S / 1582; at upper left, in graphite: N14; verso, at left center, in graphite: C 19841 / J4800; at lower center, in graphite: K8721

Marks and Labels

Friedrich August II (Lugt 972);

Provenance

Friedrich August II [1696-1763], Dresden (Lugt 972)

Associated Names

Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon. 22 vols, 1835-1852. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 22.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam, 2010: Vol. LXXVII, no. 7, i/ii.