He Has Broken Many Arrows at the Altar of Love
ArtistEngraved by
Eberhard Siegfried Henne
German, 1759 - 1828
ArtistAfter
Johann Wilhelm Meil
German, 1733 - 1805
Dateca. 1780
MediumEngraving (and etching?) on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 7 1/8 x 4 9/16 in. (18.1 x 11.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift in memory of Leon H. and Marie Buttlar Sparling by their family
Object number2008.20.26
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
SignedSigned in the plate LL outside the image area border but within plate marks :J.W. Meil" and in the LR "E. Henne Sc."
MarkingsSmall part of large watermark in upper left, Armin Kunz identifies it as a fleur-de-lis in his appraisal dated 9/22/08
DescriptionA stagelike enframement with draped valance and laurel garland covering the top of the picture frame-like border of the image. A columned setting with treed background.A central togaed figure carrying an oval medallion of a womans head in profile in his right hand gestures above and behind him towards Cupid with his left arm. The winged nude male figure stands atop a circular plinth and holds a torch in his left hand which he extinguishes with liquid poured from a bowl in his right. His bow and broken arrows lay on the top of the plinth, with another arrow at its base. The plinth is inscribed "AMORE/LETHAEO".
Two portrait medallions, one male, one female lean at the base of the left most column with a large peacock feather leaning upright against the column behind them. A third obscured medallion hangs above on the column.Exhibition History"Old Master Prints from the Sparling Family Collection", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, February 28 - May 24, 2009.ProvenanceBefore 1938, New York, NY, William Randolph Hearst (according to Richard Helbig)
By 1941, New York, NY, Gimbels Department Store (according to Richard Helbig)
New York, NY, Richard Helbig
2006, Houston, TX, Tobin Sparling
2008, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
16th Century
