Orpheus en Eurydice, Agostino Carracci, c. 1590 - c. 1595

Title(s)

Orpheus en Eurydice
Lascivie (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-35.666

Catalogue reference

• DeGrazia Bohlin 178*-2(2)
• The Illustrated Bartsch 197-2(2)
• Bartsch 123

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Orpheus probeert zijn geliefde bosnimf Eurydice uit de onderwereld te redden. Rechts vlammen die opstijgen uit de onderwereld. Op de voorgrond links ligt de viool van Orpheus.

Artist

• print maker: Agostino Carracci
• publisher: Donato Rasciotti (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Venice

Dating

c. 1590 - c. 1595

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 151 mm × width 107 mm

What

• Orpheus and Eurydice
• when leaving the underworld, Orpheus looks back and loses Eurydice for ever

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• AC-00078155object | reproductionobject | reproductie14234RM0001.COLLECT.1500078154

• Italian masters of the sixteenth century, Babette 1950- Bohn, dl. 39 commentary 1, p. 311-314, cat.nr. 197
• Italian masters of the sixteenth century, Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, dl. 39, p. 165, cat.nr. 123
• Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family, Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, p. 293, cat.nr. 178*
• Le peintre graveur, Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 18, p. 107, cat.nr. 123