Alcithoë, veranderd in een vleermuis, opstijgend, Peter Vos, 2003

Title(s)

Alcithoë, veranderd in een vleermuis, opstijgend

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-2013-57-1

Catalogue reference

• PV T-2003-RP(8)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature: ‘VOS.’
• date: ‘1.vi.'03’
• title: ‘ALCITHOE’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Figuur deels vrouw deels vleermuis in drie stadia; zittend, opstijgend en vleugels uitslaand.

Artist

• draughtsman: Peter Vos (signed by artist)

Place

Netherlands

Dating

1-Jun-2003

Material

• paper
• India ink (ink)
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 240 mm × width 160 mm

What

• Minyas' daughters changed into bats: having aroused Bacchus' anger by weaving instead of worshipping him, the daughters of Minyas, Leuconoe (Leucippe), Alcithoe and Arsippe, are changed into bats by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 399)
• flying mammals: bat

Credit line

• Gift of S. Vos-Lokhorst, Utrecht

Acquisition

gift 2013

Copyright

Saïda Vos-Lokhorst

Related

• Leuconde
• Alcithoe
• Minyas' dochters

• Peter Vos : metamorfosen, Eddy de Jongh, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Saïda Vos, Peter Vos, p. 133, afb. 155
• Peter Vos : métamorphoses, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Eddy de Jongh, Saïda Vos, p. 133, afb. 155