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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan by Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

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Joachim Wtewael: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan  wikidata:Q17347734 reasonator:Q17347734
Artist
Joachim Wtewael  (1566–1638)  wikidata:Q541644
 
Joachim Wtewael
Alternative names
Joachim Uytewael, Joachim Uyttewael, Joachim Wtenwael, Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael, Joachim Wttewael, Joachim Tonisz. Wttewaal
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1566 Edit this at Wikidata 1 August 1638 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Padua (1586-1590), France (1590-1592), Utrecht (1592-1638)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q541644
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Photographer
Holly Cheng
Title
Dutch:
Vulcanus onthult het overspel van Mars en Venus

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
title QS:P1476,nl:"Vulcanus onthult het overspel van Mars en Venus"
label QS:Lnl,"Vulcanus onthult het overspel van Mars en Venus"
label QS:Len,"Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date 1610
date QS:P571,+1610-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on copper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 18.2 × 13.5 cm (7.1 × 5.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
room 2.3
Accession number
SK-C-1712
Place of creation Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Jacob van der Lely, Councilman and Mayor of Delft; his sale, Jan de Groot, Delft, 5 April 1796, lot 28, as 'Mars en Venus door de Goden betrapt, zynde een Ordonnantie vol gewoel, extra konstig op koper geschilderd door J. Uytewaal, hoog 7 breed 5 duim' [][Mars and Venus, on a beautiful bed, lying in a lustful pose. On the side, one sees Vulcan in a pose about to throw the net he cast in metal over them. In the upper part of this scene all of Olympus is shown surprising them. In the foreground, Cupid, resting on one knee, is firing his arrow upwards to defend them. On the side, Mars's armour and Venus's toilet. Very allegorically painted, well-drawn, coloured and meticulously executed] (57 florins to Vervier). Paul-Jean Pletinckx, Brussels; his sale, Mastraeten, Brussels, 18 October 1826, lot 32, 'Mars et Venus surpris par les dieux; charmant tableau; par Joachim Untewael, 1610' (105 florins to Herris). Sir Charles Bagot (1781-1843); his sale, Christie's, London, 18 June 1836, lot 4, 'Utewaal, 1610, Mars and Venus -- on copper' (5 gns. to the following), with C. J. Nieuwenhuys, Paris. Maurice Abram de Zincourt (1836-1908), Nancy.

Christie's London, Sale 5602, Lot 8.
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom left:

Jo.Wte.wael.fecit 1610
the reverse stamped with an as yet unidentified mark bearing the initials 'WW'
References
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