Meleager en Atalanta, Cornelis Bloemaert (II), after Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1618 - c. 1630

Title(s)

Meleager en Atalanta

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1938-495

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 69-2(2)
• Roethlisberger CB10

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘J.G. Wille 1771’

Description

Meleager geeft de kop van het door hem gedode zwijn aan Atalanta zijn geliefde. Eerder was Atalanta gewond geraakt door dit zwijn.

Artist

• print maker: Cornelis Bloemaert (II) (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Cornelis Bloemaert (II) (mentioned on object)

Place

Utrecht

Dating

c. 1618 - c. 1630

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 229 mm × width 170 mm

What

• Meleager gives the head of the boar to Atalanta

Acquisition

unknown 1938

Copyright

Public domain

• Berckheyde - Bodding, p. 75, cat.nr. 69
• Abraham Bloemaert and his sons : paintings and prints, Marcel George Roethlisberger, Marten Jan Bok, p. 524, cat.nr. CB10