Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies
Hieronymus Cock, Frans Floris1552
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In <em>Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies, </em>Frans Floris portrayed a standing female figure in the center, the personification of Victory, surrounded by a multitude of nudes and trophies (or spoils of war), which she has vanquished. The nudes were inspired by Roman friezes as well as figures that Floris had studied on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes during an extended trip to Italy in the 1540s. The etching is based on a painted composition (now lost) that Floris made a few years earlier to adorn a triumphal arch, one of numerous ephemeral arches featured in festive decorations throughout the city mounted for the visit of Charles V and the future Philip II in 1549.
- Title: Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies
- Creator: Frans Floris the Elder (Flemish, 1509-1570), Hieronymus Cock
- Date Created: 1552
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); Sheet: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom), (C.G. Boerner, New York, NY), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.224
- Medium: etching with engraving
- State of work: Hollstein 4; The New Hollstein 156 second state (of three)
- Inscriptions: Unidentified collector’s mark (Lugt 4073), verso, 3 illegible graphite inscriptions, verso, In plate, in image lower left recto: “Fra floris fecit / Cock excudubat / 1552”, Latin verses below image recto: “Haec tibi promisa….de mole Superba.”
- Fun Fact: This is the only etching that the Northern Renaissance painter Frans Floris ever made.
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Netherlands, 16th century; Netherlands, 16th century
- Credit Line: Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund
- Collection: PR - Etching
- Accession Number: 2020.224
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