Cartouche met Apollo in laurierstruik en Pan tussen het riet, Stefano della Bella, 1647

Title(s)

Cartouche met Apollo in laurierstruik en Pan tussen het riet
Twaalf cartouches (series title)
Nouvelles inventions de cartouches (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

5/12

Object number

RP-P-OB-35.194

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme (Della Bella) 1019-1(2)
• Jombert (Della Bella) 133
• Orn Cat II 64

Artist

• print maker: Stefano della Bella (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Stefano della Bella
• publisher: François Langlois
• Franse kroon (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
after own design by: France
publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1647

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 124 mm × width 95 mm

What

• contest between Apollo and Pan with the mountain god Tmolus as judge, i.e. judgement of Midas; Midas often represented with ass's ears
• ornament ~ cartouche

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Stefano della Bella : catalogue raisonné, p. 156, cat.nr. 1019
• Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II : the seventeenth century, dl. 1, p. 59, cat.nr. 64
• Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Etienne de la Belle, peintre et graveur florentin, p. 137, cat.nr. 133