Apollo en Diana doden de kinderen van Niobe, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Apollo en Diana doden de kinderen van Niobe
Niobes liberi sagittis ab Apolline et Diana conficiuntur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

55/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-140-2

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 692
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Apollo en Diana, beiden met pijl-en-boog, doden de kinderen van Niobe. Verschillende kinderen liggen dood op de grond, anderen proberen te vluchten. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 37, cat.nr. 692
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787