Achilles wordt ontdekt, Bernard Baron, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1724

Title(s)

Achilles wordt ontdekt
Achilles detectus / Achilles discovered (title on object)
Leven van Achilles (series title)
Vie d'Achille (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-56.756

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 10

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240
• watermark

Artist

• print maker: Bernard Baron (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Thomas Bowles (II)
• Bernard Baron
• Richard Mead

Place

London

Dating

1724

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 448 mm × width 590 mm

What

• Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes, i.e. Achilles on Scyros: when presents are brought Achilles snatches up the weapons and thus betrays his identity

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 2, p. 56, cat.nr. 10
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, cat.nr. 20