Jupiter verandert koning Lycaon in een wolf, Jean Lepautre, 1650 - 1682

Title(s)

Jupiter verandert koning Lycaon in een wolf
Scènes uit de Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1934-551

Catalogue reference

• IFF 17e siècle 205

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jean Lepautre (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Jean Lepautre (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Nicolas Langlois (I) (mentioned on object)
• Lodewijk XIV (koning van Frankrijk) (mentioned on object)

Place

publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1650 - 1682

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 168 mm × width 223 mm

What

• Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)

Acquisition

unknown 1934

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 11, p. 124, cat.nr. 205