De metgezellen van Diomedes in reigers veranderd, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

De metgezellen van Diomedes in reigers veranderd
Comites Diomedis indignatione Veneris in aves Diomedeas (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

138/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-154-1

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 775
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

De metgezellen van Diomedes staan op een schip op zee en worden door Venus in reigers veranderd. 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

• Diomedes' companions changed into herons: because they have insulted her, Venus changes Diomedes' companions into herons (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 494)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 78, cat.nr. 775
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787