Proserpina verandert Ascalaphus in een uil, Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Title(s)

Proserpina verandert Ascalaphus in een uil
Ascalaphus a Proserpina in bubonem mutatur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

49/150

Object number

RP-P-OB-37.823

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 686
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Ascalaphus ontdekt Proserpina die stiekem granaatappels staat te plukken. Voor straf verandert Proserpina hem in een uil. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 117 mm

What

• owls
• Ascalaphus changed into a screech-owl: as punishment for discovering she had eaten some pomegranates, Proserpina sprinkles water from the Phlegethon on Ascalaphus' head, thus changing him into a screech-owl (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 543)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 34, cat.nr. 686
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787