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Artist: Bartholomaeus Spranger, Flemish, 1546–1611

Venus and Mercury

ca. 1600

Pen and brown ink and gray wash, heightened with white

sheet: 37 x 25.4 cm (14 9/16 x 10 in.) framed: 59.06 x 43.82 cm (23 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.)
Enoch Vine Stoddard, B.A. 1905, Fund
1974.38
Culture: 
Flemish
Period: 
16th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Status: 
By appointment
Provenance: 

John Gaskin? (a letter from Anthony Blunt in the curatorial files clarifies that Gaskin had been the owner, and not Blunt, who had been listed in the Colnaghi sale catalogue); acquired from P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., London

Bibliography: 

Suzanne Boorsch and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 26, 29, 98, 111–13, 248, no. 29, ill.

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