Daphne verandert in een boom, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I) (school of), 1540 - 1600

Title(s)

Daphne verandert in een boom

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1951-253(V)

Artist

• draughtsman: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I) (school of)

Dating

1540 - 1600

Material

• paper
• chalk

Measurements

height 275 mm × width 408 mm

What

• Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1951

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Val der giganten

• Netherlandish drawings of the 15th and 16th centuries, cat.nr. 538
• Stijn Alsteens, 'The Drawings of Pieter Coecke van Aelst', Master Drawings 52 (2014) nr. 3, p. 294, 335, fig. 23, nr. A36.