River Landscape with Mercury Abducting Psyche (from a series Two River Landscapes with Mythological Subjects, 1 of 2 plates)

Simon van den Heuvel ((Simon Novellanus) Netherlandish, died about 1590)

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)

about 1595

Medium/TechniqueEtching

DimensionsPlatemark: 27.6 x 34.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund

Accession number97.1162

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InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin: ARTI ET INGENIO STAT SINE MORTE DECVS; lower left: Pulcher Atlantiades Psÿchen ad Sydera tollens,/Ingenio scandi sÿdera posse docet.; lower right: Ingenio liquidum possim consendere Cælum,/Si mundi curas fata leuare velint.; bottom center: Petrus Bruegel fec: Romæ A°:1553./Excud: Houf: cum præ Cæs:_

ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - b. 1896), New York; from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897. (Accession Date: May 4, 1897)