Morpheus verschijnt als Ceyx aan Alcyone, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Morpheus verschijnt als Ceyx aan Alcyone
Morpheus Ceycis corpus Halcyoni representat (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

110-150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-149-3

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 747
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Morpheus verschijnt in de gedaante van Ceyx aan het bed van Alcyone. 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

• Morpheus, in the guise of Ceyx, informs Alcyone in a dream of Ceyx' fate

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 64, cat.nr. 747
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787