HENDRIK GOUDT 1585 The Hague? - 1648 Utrecht
After Adam Elsheimer
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| The mocking of Ceres or Ceres seeking her daughter |
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Engraving, 1610.
Signed and dated in the plate “AElsheimer pinxit. HGoudt sculpsit et dicavit Romae 1610”
8 lines of Latin verse and a dedication to Cardinal Scipio Borghese. |
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31.8 x 24.8 cm trimmed on the platemark, lower
border inside.
Bartsch 5, Wurzbach 5,
Hollstein 5. |
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| Fine impression. Some small parts strengthened in the margin seen verso. |
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One of the icons of printmaking.
Hendrik Goudt went to Rome c. 1604. He lived for a time in the house of Adam Elsheimer.
This print is one of the two done while he was in Rome.
Goudt returned to Holland and settled in Utrecht. |
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