drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5237.78
- Description
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The Discovery of the Infant Erichthonius; Auglarus, one of Cecrop's daughters, seated outside a classical building accompanied by a putto, lifts the lid of a basket at her feet and discovers the infant with legs ending in serpent's tails, her sister Pandrosus seated at a fountain (decorated with a five-breasted Artemis carrying two dolphins) at right with a small dog and jug at her feet, Herse standing in front of a tree at left and supporting an elder serving woman, a second putto trumpeting in top left, a courtyard in left background
Black chalk, touched with pen and grey ink, on grey paper
- Production date
- 1618-1620 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 239 millimetres
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Width: 355 millimetres (top corners cut)
- Curator's comments
- This is a copy after the painting by Rubens in the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, inv.no.GE111 (Rooses 606). A drawn study of the same subject for the engraving by Pieter van Sompel (see 1864,1114.479) is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, inv.no.O30.
Literature: K. Barrett, 'Pieter Soutman: Life and Oeuvre' (Oculi: Studies in the Art of the Low Countries), Amsterdam, 2012, cat.no.DR2, fig.D31 (as Workshop of Rubens).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2004 June-Sep, Antwerp, Koninklijk Mus Voor Schone Kunsten, Rubens and the Art of Printmaking
2004-2005 Oct-Jan, Québec, Musée du Québec, Rubens and the Art of Printmaking
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5237.78
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,22.78