Minerva and Cupid Leading Hercules and Scipio to the Path of Virtue

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jan Harmensz. Muller

Title

Minerva and Cupid Leading Hercules and Scipio to the Path of Virtue

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1589–1593

Medium

Engraving on laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered upper right: "B.us Sprangers inventor. J. Muller sculpsit."; lower right: "HMuller excud. Amster."; and below image: "Huc adsis

Dimensions

Plate: 23.8 × 16 cm (9 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Reference Number

2023.216

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