Cycnus en Hyrie, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Cycnus en Hyrie
Cygnus in olorem Hiere in stagnum vertuntur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

66/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-142-1

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 703
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Hyrie verandert in een fontein. Haar zoon Cycnus verandert in een zwaan. 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

• Hyrie changed into a fountain: in her grief for the loss of Cycnus, her son by Apollo, Hyrie is changed into a fountain (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 380)
• Cygnus, son of Apollo, changed into a swan: because his friend Phil(l)ius refused to give him the bull captured by the help of Hercules, Cycnus, the son of Apollo, leaps off a cliff, and is changed into a swan (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 371)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 42, cat.nr. 703
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787