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Saturn (from Eight Antique Gods series, 1 of 8 plates)
about 1592
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.5 x 21.3 cm (14 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7280
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 256; Hollstein 296
Signed
Signed in plate, in lower margin, within inscription [see inscription transcription]
Marks
Watermark: square and star [in a circle?]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: SATVRNVS.; dated on column bases, lower left: Anno.; lower right: 1592.; in lower margin: Octo gentium Dij per Polydorum quondàm quodam in atrio Romæ e Cenobÿ Diui/Pauli regione: in colle Quirinali, nunc M. Cauallo ad parietem et lucidè et subumbrosè deliniati,/ per HGoltzius ibidem adnotati, et celati postmodum in Tyronum gratiam. [These eight heathen gods were painted by Polidoro on a courtyard wall in the quarter of St. Paul's Convent, on the Quirinal at Rome, now called Monte Cavallo. They are distinguished by the excellence of their clair-obscur effect. H. Goltzius has sketched them on location and now engraved them for the use of his students."
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.