Val van Phaëthon, anonymous, 1500 - 1599

Title(s)

Val van Phaëthon

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-H-902

Description

Phaëthon valt met zijn wagen en zijn vier paarden uit de lucht. Linksonder ligt een riviergod en rechts staan zijn zusters, de Heliaden, die veranderen in populieren.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous

Place

Italy

Dating

1500 - 1599

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 285 mm × width 218 mm

What

• fall of Phaethon; he is struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter
• Heliades changed into poplar-trees: while weeping over Phaeton's grave the Heliades are changed into poplar-trees, and their tears turn into beads of amber; their mother Clymene may be present (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 346)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1979

Copyright

Public domain