The Drunken Silenus / Richard van Orley [artwork]
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- Title
- The Drunken Silenus [artwork]
- Artist
- Orley, Richard van, 1663-1732
- Date Created
- late 17th-early 18th century
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- Sheet: 17 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (45.0 x 32.7 cm.); plate impression: 16 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (42.9 x 29.8 cm.)
- Artist notes
- after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, history, genre, and landscape painter, and engraver, 1577-1640
- Artist nationality
- Flemish
- Artist role
- painter, draughtsman and etcher
- Original artist
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
- Inscription
- Recto: bottom center: (in Latin) Luctantur gressus, cerebro vindemia feruet. ; l. l.: P. Paulus Rubens In. et pinxit. ; l. r.: Rich. Van Orley fecit. ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil, in corner) 10; u. l.: (in pencil) Clark . Apr. 1938 / $16 50
- Medium
- Etching.
- Condition
- Fine condition.
- Provenance
- The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 13 Apr. 1938.
- Instrument
- Flute
- Century
- late 17th-early 18th century
- Subjects
- Reproductive print [after well-known artist]
- Classical/Mythological
- Miller category
- Mythological, etc.
- Miller ID
- 0493/U
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014