Triptolemus ontvangt de wagen van Ceres, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Triptolemus ontvangt de wagen van Ceres
Segetum vsum Triptolemum docet Ceres (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

52/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-139-5

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 689
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Ceres vraagt Triptolemus graan te zaaien en geeft hem haar wagen die door draken getrokken wordt. 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

• Ceres instructs Triptolemus and sends him about the world in her dragon-drawn chariot

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 35, cat.nr. 689
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787