Alcithoe, Peter Vos, 2003

Title(s)

Alcithoe (original title on object)

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-2010-56-43

Catalogue reference

• PV T-2003-RP(5)

Inscriptions / marks

• date: ‘31.V.'03’
• signature: ‘VOS’
• title: ‘ALCITHOE’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Vleermuis met menselijke gelaatstrekken en borsten, zittend in nis.

Artist

• draughtsman: Peter Vos (signed by artist)

Place

Netherlands

Dating

31-May-2003

Material

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

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 240 mm
height c. 155 mm × width c. 171 mm

What

• Minyas' daughters changed into bats: having aroused Bacchus' anger by weaving instead of worshipping him, the daughters of Minyas, Leuconoe (Leucippe), Alcithoe and Arsippe, are changed into bats by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 399)
• flying mammals: bat

Acquisition

purchase 2009

Copyright

erven Peter Vos

Related

• Leuconde
• Alcithoë, veranderd in een vleermuis, opstijgend
• Minyas' dochters

• Peter Vos : metamorfosen, Eddy de Jongh, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Saïda Vos, Peter Vos, p. 129, afb. 150
• Peter Vos : métamorphoses, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Eddy de Jongh, Saïda Vos, p. 129, afb. 150