Nyctimene, Peter Vos, 2003

Title(s)

Nyctimene (original title on object)

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-2010-56-12

Catalogue reference

• PV T-2003-RP(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘NYCTIMENE’
• signature: ‘VOS.’
• date: ‘15.vii.'03’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

De gedaanteverwisseling van een vrouw (Nyctimene), die in vier stadia in een steenuil verandert.

Artist

• draughtsman: Peter Vos (signed by artist)

Place

Netherlands

Dating

15-Jul-2003

Material

• paper
• India ink (ink)
• pencil
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 148 mm × width 210 mm

What

• Nyctimene changed into an owl: because she feels ashamed of having committed incest with her father, Nyctimene is changed into an owl by Minerva (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 590)
• owls

Acquisition

purchase 2009

Copyright

erven Peter Vos

Related

• Nyctimene

• Peter Vos : metamorfosen, Eddy de Jongh, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Saïda Vos, Peter Vos, p. 113, afb. 129
• Peter Vos : métamorphoses, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Eddy de Jongh, Saïda Vos, p. 113, afb. 129