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CÆSARIS AVGVSTI, / ADRIANVS DE VRIES HAGIENSIS FACIEBAT PRAGÆ. / OPVS ALTITVDINIS PEDVM OCTO. 1593. / In gratiam D: Adriani de Vries, Cognati sui chariß:mi / Sculpebat Iohannes Mullerus. / Harman: Muller: excudebat","signed":null,"catalograisonne":"Bartsch 292.82; Hollstein 56; New Hollstein 82","creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1982-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Mercury Abducting Psyche: Mercury Seen in Profile","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":3916,"displayname":"Jan Harmensz Müller","displaydate":"Dutch, 1571–1628","datebegin":1571,"dateend":1628,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Jan Harmensz Müller, Dutch, 1571–1628","displayorder":1},{"id":5548,"displayname":"Adriaen de Vries","displaydate":"Dutch, ca. 1545–1626","datebegin":1545,"dateend":1626,"prefix":"after","suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"after Adriaen de Vries, Dutch, ca. 1545–1626","displayorder":2},{"id":20278,"displayname":"Hermen Jansz. Müller","displaydate":"Dutch, ca. 1540–1617","datebegin":1540,"dateend":1617,"prefix":"Published by","suffix":null,"role":"Publisher","displaymaker":"Published by Hermen Jansz. Müller, Dutch, ca. 1540–1617","displayorder":3}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<P>The Amsterdam printmaker Jan Muller reproduced works by other artists, including his brother-in-law Adriaen de Vries, court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague. De Vries’s monumental bronze of <EM>Mercury Abducting Psyche </EM>(1593) draws inspiration from the spiraling compositions of Florentine sculptor Giambologna. Reproductive prints such as this encouraged the spread of the bronze’s elegant mannerist style. This virtuoso print, one of three representing the bronze from different angles, demonstrates Muller’s mastery of the volumetric engraving technique recently developed by Hendrick Goltzius, in which each line swells and diminishes in order to create the illusion of mass.</P>\r\n<P><SPAN lang=EN><SPAN lang=EN>&nbsp;</P></SPAN></SPAN>","remarks":"K1-3 May 2012 "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<SPAN lang=EN>The Amsterdam printmaker Jan Müller reproduced works by his contemporaries, including his brother-in-law Adriaen de Vries, court sculptor to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague and leading representative of the international Mannerist style—as exemplified by the elegant and elongated figures of his monumental bronze <I>Mercury Abducting Psyche</I>. In this masterpiece of spiraling complexity, De Vries evoked the mythological episode in which Mercury, winged messenger to the gods, bears the beautiful mortal Psyche aloft to Mount Olympus. Müller’s virtuoso engraving is one of three widely disseminated prints by him that <SPAN lang=EN>represent the sculpture from different angles.","remarks":"K1-3 Rotation April 2018"}],"media":[{"id":40620,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1982-6","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<P><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>F.W.H. Hollstein, “Meer-Ossenbeeck,” <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700</SPAN></EM> (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1956).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>","citation":"<P><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>F.W.H. 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