Roof van de dochters van Leucippus, Johann Leonhard Raab, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1835 - 1899

Title(s)

Roof van de dochters van Leucippus
Castor et Pollux (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-56.488

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 22

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• number: ‘39’

Artist

• printmaker: Johann Leonhard Raab (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)
• printer (person): Georg Friedrich Felsing (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Peter Kaeser (mentioned on object)

Place

München

Dating

1835 - 1899

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 375 mm × width 319 mm

What

• (story of) the Dioscuri: Castor (the horse-tamer) and Pollux (the boxer)
• Leucippus' daughters, the Leucippides, are abducted by the Dioscuri

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, Ch Leblanc, dl. 3, p. 266, cat.nr. 22