Minerva

Attributed to Jan Muller Netherlandish

After Bartholomeus Spranger Netherlandish

ca. 1600

Not on view

This striking, unfinished engraving of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was only attributed to Jan Muller relatively recently. It belongs to a group of large-scale engravings after Bartolomeus Spranger, the court painter to Rudolf II, that Muller made between 1597 and 1606. While the figure is largely completed, the hatching of the drapery at the lower right stops abruptly. There are also large blank areas in the background and a rapidly sketched oval in the upper left corner, all of which suggests that this might be a work in progress, and Muller is famous for the large number of incomplete proof impressions that he printed during his lifetime. However, in contrast to those proofs, there are no "finished" impressions of this print recorded.

The print was previously considered to be the work of Aegidius Sadler or Jacob Matham.

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Catalogue Raisonné

Title: Minerva
Artist: Attributed to Jan Muller (Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1571–1628 Amsterdam)
Artist: After Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1546–1611 Prague)
Date: ca. 1600
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 3/16 × 9 1/16 in. (51.2 × 23 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Object Number: 53.601.336(73)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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