Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed
Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520 - 1582
after Perino del Vaga, Italian, 1500 - 1547
about 1555
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 11 5/16 × 8 1/8 in. (28.7 × 20.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Dorothy and Jerome R. Goldstein, Class of 1954 and through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.986.27
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
ARTH 28.08, Italian Art from Renaissance to Baroque: Crisis and Invention, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2020
ARTH 28.09/MES 18.02, Art on the Move: Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2021
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023
Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 46.
An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Art 2, Turrill/Zemel, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 21, 2019-January 27, 2020.
Ghisi, Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, 1985.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.
Renaissance and Mannerist Plaquettes and Medals from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-November 21, 2013.
Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: An Introduction to the History of Art From the Year 1500 to the Present, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11 - March 7, 1993.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 2, ill. p.1, fig. 1, listed p. 7, no. 46.
Provenance
J. M. Rysback (Lugt 1912); Davidsohn (Lugt 654); R.E. Lewis, Inc.; sold to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
Boorsch, Lewis & Lewis: 18, state la/lll Bartsch 35
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