Arethusa wordt achtervolgd door Alpheüs, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Arethusa wordt achtervolgd door Alpheüs
Arethusa ab Alpheo adamata in fontem sui nominis convertitur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

51/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-139-4

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 688
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

De nimf Arethusa vlucht voor de riviergod Alpheüs. De godin Diana schiet haar te hulp. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• Arethusa is turned into a fountain when pursued by the handsome hunter Alpheus (Pausanias V 7, 2)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 35, cat.nr. 688
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787