print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1850,0810.660
- Title
- Series: Signorum Veterum Icones
- Description
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The dying son of Niobe lying naked on a piece of drapery, his left arm covering his face and his right hand resting on his stomach; his left foot missing
Etching
- Production date
- 1672-1689 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This etching and those on plate six (1850,0810.659) and thirty-three (1850,0810.686) are copies in reverse after a part of the Medici group of 'The Deaths of the Children of Niobe', which is a copy of the late Hellenistic, Roman Republican or early Imperial period after a lost Hellenistic original. The etchings were made after drawings by Doudijns, but neither these nor any intermediary drawings can be traced. In his list of contents and locations, De Bisschop rightly says that the sculptures which he reproduces here, form part of the Medici group. He also mentions Pliny's uncertainty, as to whether Skopas or Praxiteles was the artist, but he wisely adds that it is believed that it was the Medici group which is the work mentioned by Pliny. He furthermore refers to an epigram in titulus 9 of the fourth book of the 'Greek Anthology' where he found the testimony that Praxiteles had made a marble work of this subject. De Bisschop clearly had the 'Anthologia Planudea' at his disposal and refers to epigram 1 in the book and the titulu he mentions.For comment on volume see 1850,0810.652.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0810.660
