Moord op Agamemnon en Cassandra, Theodoor van Thulden, after Francesco Primaticcio, 1632 - 1633

Title(s)

Moord op Agamemnon en Cassandra
De werken van Odysseus (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

8/58

Object number

RP-P-OB-66.739

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 46

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Na aankomst in Mycene wordt Agamemnon bij het banket door Aegisthos vermoord. Daarnaast doodt Klytaimnestra Cassandra.

Artist

• print maker: Theodoor van Thulden (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Theodoor van Thulden
• after painting by: Francesco Primaticcio

Place

Paris

Dating

1632 - 1633

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 199 mm × width 328 mm

What

• the murder of Agamemnon: he is killed when sitting at a banquet
• Clytaemnestra kills Cassandra

Acquisition

unknown 2011

Copyright

Public domain

• Cornelis Anthonisz T(h)eunissen to Johannes den Uyl, p. 115, cat.nr. 46
• La Galerie d'Ulysse à Fontainebleau, Sylvie Béguin, André Chastel, Jean Guillaume, Alain Roy, p. 216-218, cat.nr. 8