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Erato with a wreath of myrtle and roses under a columned portico holding a cornucopia; next to her Eros. In the background the ark on Mount Ararat
Original in first state
illustration for "Inleyding tot de Hooghe schoole der Schilderkonst" by Samuel van Hoogstraten
table n 4 (in the cartouche)
Print on laid paper in good condition
Inscription content: Lettered with title and numbered 4.
Hollstein catalogs under number 14 plates made by Hoogstraten as illustrations for his book.
References: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, etchings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (31)
Erato was one of the nine muses daughters of Zeus, namely that of choral singing and love poetry.
From private collection
A copy is in the collection of the British Museum
Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht, 1627 - 1678)
In 1640 he studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam.
In 1651 he worked for the emperor in Vienna, and returned there in 1653 after a stay in Rome in 1652.
Returning to Dordrecht in 1654, he was in The Hague in 1667, where he joined the "Pictura", a brotherhood of painters.
In 1673 he returned to Dordrecht where he died in 1678, the year after he published there a courtier's manual, Den Eerlyken Jongeling, and the year his art treatise, the Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst was published , from which this impression is taken 67361637
