Salmacis en Hermaphroditus, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Salmacis en Hermaphroditus
Hermaphroditus et Salmacis unum in corpus abeunt (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

36/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-137-3

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 673
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Salmacis en Hermaphroditus omhelzen elkaar aan de rand van een meer, waarna ze volgens de mythe zouden versmelten tot een tweeslachtig wezen.

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

• Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373)
• story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 27, cat.nr. 673
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787