Zelfmoord van Ajax, Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Title(s)

Zelfmoord van Ajax
Aiax mortem sibi consciscens, in florem abit (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

119/150

Object number

RP-P-OB-37.893

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 756
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Ajax stort zich in zijn eigen zwaard, nadat hij de strijd om de wapenrusting van Achilles verloren heeft. 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

• suicide of Ajax
• Ajax' blood changed into a hyacinth: after Ajax has taken his own life, his blood is changed into a hyacinth (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 207; XIII 390)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 69, cat.nr. 756
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787