Alkoof met Pelias, anonymous, after Jean Lepautre, after 1628 - before 1724

Title(s)

Alkoof met Pelias
Alcoues a la Romaine (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

2/6

Object number

RP-P-1964-4448

Catalogue reference

• Orn Cat II 8657

Description

Pelias wordt vermoord door zijn dochters.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after design by: Jean Lepautre
• publisher: Jeremias Wolf

Place

print maker: Germany (possibly)
after design by: France (possibly)
publisher: Augsburg

Dating

after 1628 - before 1724

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 158 mm × width 221 mm

What

• the daughters of Pelias kill their father in his bed; Medea plunges his body in boiling water

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1964

Copyright

Public domain

• Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II : the seventeenth century, deel 2, p. 472, cat.nr. 8657