Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Matthäus Greuter
Strasbourg, c. 1564/66 - Rome, 1638
Wendel Dietterlin
Pfullendorf, 1550/51 - Strasbourg, 1599
The Power of Venus (after Wendel Dietterlin)
| Date | 1587 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | engraving, etching |
| Size（cm） | 21.0 x 30.6 (image) |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated below: M. Greuter inuent et fecit. Wendlius Dieterlin figurait Argentina 1587; Inscription below: Per Coelum volat, ecce, CUPIDO: Vulgus in omne Proterua coecâ tela molitur manu. Quem ferit infatuat VENUS ecce aedente cuculla: Curruque VANITATIS improba lorans; Raptat equus geminus quent STULTITIA atq VOLUPTAS; Regitque demens, CAECITAS; DERISIO. Cui comes it propris inceßens, atque cachinnis: Praecipitat ima fecum raptum ad Tartara, Qua locus EXITII est, leuâ sub parte, perennis. Foelix AMORIS fela qui praui effugit: Atq Pudificia monitu, et SAPIENTIAE, HONOREM. Quaerens, Sacranig VIRTUITI domum. Calle pius dextro sic fendit ad astra. Salutis Brandus aterna roelesti munere. |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.2012-0004 |
Exhibition History
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 79
Bibliography
- 2014
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, List of New Acquisitions. p. 59.
- 2017
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 108, 141, cat. no. 79, col. repr.