Diana en Actaeon, Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, after Petrus Ferlonus, after Domenichino, 1713

Title(s)

Diana en Actaeon
Incaute Acteon, tibi quod sine veste Diana, Visa sit, humana, tu quoque veste cares (title on object)
Het leven van Diana

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-36.164

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Prins Actaeon betrapt Diana en haar nimfen terwijl zij baden. Als straf wordt hij door Diana in een hert veranderd, waarna hij door zijn eigen jachthonden wordt verscheurd.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Petrus Ferlonus (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Domenichino (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Rome
after drawing by: Italy
after painting by: Italy

Dating

1713

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 220 mm × width 350 mm

What

• hoofed animals: deer
• Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain