Wolf in marmer veranderd, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Wolf in marmer veranderd
Psamantes Pelei, Thetidisqe precibus expugnata lupum in saxum mutat (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

106/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-148-5

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 743
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Door het gebed van Peleus en Thetis wordt de wolf die de kudde van Peleus aanvalt in marmer veranderd. 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

• wolf turned to marble: at the prayer of Peleus and Thetis, a wolf is turned into marble by Psamathe because it had attacked the cattle that Peleus was herding on the sea-shore (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 401)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian masters of the sixteenth century, Sebastian Buffa, dl. 36, p. 62, cat.nr. 743
• Le peintre graveur: [vol. 17: peintres ou dessinateurs italiens : maîtres du seizième siècle, 2], Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787