Jupiter and Antiope: the larger plate, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659

Title(s)

Jupiter and Antiope: the larger plate

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1980-333

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 311-3(3)
• Bartsch 203-2(2)
• Hollstein Dutch 203-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f 1659’
• inscription: ‘Jupyn, als hij (...) vleugeldier of zot’gedicht
• inscription: ‘Jupin, ouvrant (...) enorme mine’gedicht
• mark: Lugt 2228 a
• mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

1659

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 138 mm × width 203 mm

What

• Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, approaches the sleeping Antiope; the eagle may be standing nearby

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1980

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 300, cat.nr. 311
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 147, afb. 16