Actaeon wordt vervloekt door de badende Diana, Justus Sadeler (possibly), after Hans Rottenhammer (I), 1600 - 1620

Title(s)

Actaeon wordt vervloekt door de badende Diana

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-7603

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 54

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Op de voorgrond de badende Diana en haar nimfen. Op de achtergrond rechts Actaeon die in een hert verandert, omdat hij Diana bespioneerde.

Artist

• print maker: Justus Sadeler (possibly)
• after design by: Hans Rottenhammer (I) (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Justus Sadeler (mentioned on object)

Place

Venice (possibly)

Dating

1600 - 1620

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

width 218 mm × height 141 mm

What

• Diana bathing with her nymphs
• Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II, Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, p. 204, cat.nr. 54
• Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II, Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, p. 178 (afb.), cat.nr. 54