Diana en haar nimfen ontdekt door Actaeon, Dancker Danckerts, after Cornelis Holsteyn, 1633 - 1666

Title(s)

Diana en haar nimfen ontdekt door Actaeon

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1902-A-22516

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 30-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Diana en haar nimfen ontdekt door Actaeon die staand achter een rots de vrouwen bespied. In de ondermarge Latijns vers in vier regels.

Artist

• print maker: Dancker Danckerts (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Cornelis Holsteyn (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Dancker Danckerts (mentioned on object)

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

1633 - 1666

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 370 mm × width 306 mm

What

• Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)

Acquisition

purchase Nov-1902

Copyright

Public domain

• Cornelisz. - Dou, p. 131, cat.nr. 30-1