Artist: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Title: Mercury turning Battus into stone. (Metamorphoses by Ovid).
Signed and inscribed in plate: H: Swanevelt fecit Rome.
Dimensions: Image 7 3/8" x 10 1/4". Sheet 9 7/8" x 12 1/2".
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: the same but watermarked "voyage en autriche" paper is used for another Swanevelts from our collection.
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: Stain u.l. 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. pp. 314-315. No. 110.
Part of: a companion piece to " Mercury silencing Battus." WOP-402.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum Sheepshanks.2271.
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.