Venus and Minerva

Venus and Minerva

SK-A-3952

Venus en Minerva, staande in een landschap, met de armen over elkaars schouders. Links tegen een boom staan het schild en de lans van Minerva, Venus heeft een pijl en boog in de handen. Ovale voorstelling in een cartouche met rolwerk, vruchten en festoenen.

• painter: circle of Pellegrino Tibaldi
• painter: Hans Rottenhammer (I) [rejected attribution]

c. 1590 - c. 1620

olieverf op koper

• height 31 cm x width 22.7 cm
• depth 5.3 cm

Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 1959

Public domain

…; the Arcade Gallery, London, 1949;{Dealer cat. Arcade Gallery 1949, unpag., no. 23, as Johann Rottenhammer.} from whom purchased by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1953;{RMA Archive, J.W. Edwin vom Rath Fonds, letter Slatkin, Ch. E., February 1959.} from whom, $ 1,000, as Hans Rottenhammer, to the museum, with support from the J.W. Edwin vom Rath Fonds, 1959

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