Apollo omhelst Daphne, Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Title(s)

Apollo omhelst Daphne
Apollon et Daphné (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1903-A-23573

Catalogue reference

• IFF 11
• Beraldi 26

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Artist

• print maker: Théodore Chassériau (mentioned on object)
• printer: Lemercier & Cie. (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1844

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 451 mm × width 305 mm

What

• Apollo pursuing the nymph Daphne (as yet not metamorphosed)
• Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548)

Acquisition

purchase Nov-1903

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, dl. 4, p. 410., cat.nr. 11
• Les graveurs du 19e siècles : guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, Henri Béraldi, dl. 4, p. 137., cat.nr. 26