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A Chalice
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
1640
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 44.8 × 22.7 cm (17 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Bohemia
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Wenceslaus Hollar made this etching from a drawing in the 14th Earl of Arundel’s collection that was attributed to Andreas Mantegna. It entered the British Museum in the late 19th century, and was termed an anonymous Venetian work. This etching and Seleucus and His Son are two of four prints Hollar made from 1637 to 1641 after objects in Arundel’s collection. The detailed religious designs on the bowl of the chalice depict scenes from the Passion of Christ, while angels and apostles surround the stem. The abstract arch just above the chalice suggests a hovering communion wafer.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
