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Carlo Cesio
after Annibale Carracci
Venus and Anchises, between 1650 and 1686
etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Carlo Cesio, Italian, 1626-1686
Artist after Annibale Carracci, Italian, 1560-1609
Publisher Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651-1725
Title
  • Venus and Anchises
  • Galeria nel palazzo Farnese in Roma (series title)
Date between 1650 and 1686
Medium etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (23.2 × 21.6 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S275
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamped, verso: Scripps 1885 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink, verso]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, as part of the image, lower right: GENVS VNDE | LATINVM.
Inscribed, lower left: Ann. Caracci Inv.
Inscribed, lower center: C. Cesius del. et Sculp. Romae.
Inscribed, lower right: Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis.
August 1885, N.C. Perkins.
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)