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print
;
album
Object Type
print
album
Museum number
1871,1209.5024
Title
Series:
Opus Typochromaticum
Description
Adriadne; a seated woman dressed in a chiton Engraving printed à la poupée in black, pale grey-brown and red-brown ink
Producer name
After:
Annibale Carracci
Published by:
Johannes Teyler
School/style
Dutch
Italian
Production date
1688-1700
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
colour
Dimensions
Height:
131 millimetres
Width:
88 millimetres
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Curator's comments
This is a copy after (the design for) the fresco by Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, of the figure of Ariadne in the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(6)
(Johannes Teyler)
Haemmerle 1937 / Der Farbstich: Seine Anfaenge und seine Entwicklung bis zum Jahre MDCCLXV
(pp. 47–52, no. 16–34.)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythological figure/creature
Associated names
Representation of:
Ariadne
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edwin Tross
(the album no. 2139 in his 1870 catalogue)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Frederik Muller & Co
(18-20.iv.1868/1085 (fl.200))
Acquisition date
1871
Acquisition notes
The reference to the Tross catalogue was provided by Ad Stijnman (email 30/1/16)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1871,1209.5024