Perseus en Andromeda, Hendrick Goltzius, 1583

Title(s)

Perseus en Andromeda

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.130

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 156
• Hollstein Dutch 157
• New Hollstein Dutch 155

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Henricus Goltzius. inuent..& Sculptor. Ao 1583.’
• signature: ‘E.Leon A.?.’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Andromeda, de dochter van een Ethiopische koning, is vastgeketend aan een rots. Op de achtergrond verslaat Perseus het zeemonster om Andromeda te kunnen komen redden. In de marge onder de prent vier regels Latijn.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• Oelsius Leonardus Leon (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Hendrick Goltzius

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1583

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 198 mm × width 144 mm

What

• Perseus kills the sea monster (or turns it into stone by showing it the Gorgon's head) to release Andromeda; sometimes her parents Cepheus and Cassiopea watch the scene

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Goltzius - Heemskerck, cat.nr. 157
• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. I, p. 254, cat.nr. 155
• Goltzius-studies : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), p. 207, cat.nr. 9