Seleucus and His Son

Prints and Drawings

1637

Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
after Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (Italian, c. 1499-1546)

Wenceslaus Hollar dedicated this etching to his patron Thomas Howard, the 14th Earl of Arundel, and documented much of Howard’s art collection in print. This image depicts the epitome of ancient justice, Seleucus, who offered one of his own eyes to save his adulterous son from losing both. The print reproduces Giulio Romano’s fresco in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua— which supplied the architectural shape of the image. However, it is likely that Hollar used not an original preparatory drawing but a copy that was in Arundel’s collection and is now in the British Museum.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar
Title: Seleucus and His Son
Place: Bohemia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1637
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 28.3 × 37.3 cm (11 3/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2264
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