Hippomenes wint de hardloopwedstrijd tegen Atalanta, Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Title(s)

Hippomenes wint de hardloopwedstrijd tegen Atalanta
Atlantam Veneris ope vincit Hippoinenes (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

97/150

Object number

RP-P-OB-37.871

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 734
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Hippomenes wint de hardloopwedstrijd tegen Atalanta. 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

• during the foot-race Hippomenes drops the three golden apples; Atalante stops to pick them up, and is thus beaten

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 58, cat.nr. 734
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787