Phaeton, 1588

  • Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617
  • Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Dutch, 1562 - 1638

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white laid paper

  • Plate (diameter): 13 1/8 inches (33.3 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 14 inches (35.2 × 35.6 cm)

Museum Purchase, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of DIA 125th Anniversary

2011.1.3

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, lower center: C.C. Pictor Juue. [artist's monogram] Sculp.

Inscribed, in circular border, clockwise from upper center: NON AMBIRE PROBAT SAPIENS SED LAVDAT HONORES, LAVDAT, CONGINGANT SI TAMEN ILLA PROBIS. SIC PHAETONTÆVS NIMINVM TEMERARIA LAPSVS VOTA DOCET TANDEN FINE CARERE BONO.

2011-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 11.

Hendrick Goltzius; after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Phaeton, 1588, engraving printed in black ink on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of DIA 125th Anniversary, 2011.1.3.