Cereris Bacchique Amicus (A Friend of Ceres and Bacchus), 1695

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.5 x 19.4 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 28.1 x 21 cm (11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 93, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1996.69.2

Artists / Makers

Cornelis Dusart (artist) Dutch, 1660 - 1704

Jacob Gole (publisher) Dutch, 1660 - 1724

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: CERERIS BACCHIQUE AMICUS / Ik lach ... den grooten Woljam zwicht. / A. Bógaert. / Ik drink dees roemer uyt op d'welraart van Oranje, En roep vast over luyt Victori met Britanje. / C. Dusart inv. J.Gole Excudit Amstelodami cum Privilegio Ord. Holl. et West=Frisiae.; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: No 7.

Provenance

(James Bergquist, Boston); purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Exhibition History

2008: Everyday Life in Black and White. Dutch Mezzotints from the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, 2008, no catalogue.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 93, iii/iii