
Venus and Amor, from Three Pagan Gods or Goddesses
Jan SaenredamWW-1820-126484
1820·Engraving on wove paper·Plate: 25.7 × 19.4 cm (10 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.); sheet: 30.4 × 23 cm (12 × 9 1/16 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1820
- Medium
- Engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 25.7 × 19.4 cm (10 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.); sheet: 30.4 × 23 cm (12 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jan Saenredam
Artist

Jan Saenredam
Painting
Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam was a Dutch Northern Mannerist painter, printmaker in engraving, and cartographer, and father of the painter of church interiors, Pieter Jansz Saenredam. He is noted for the many allegorical images he created from classical mythology and the Bible.
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- Jan Saenredam
- Year
- 1820
- Medium
- Engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 25.7 × 19.4 cm (10 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.); sheet: 30.4 × 23 cm (12 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1820-126484
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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