The Fall of Phaeton

Robert de Baudous

Artist, Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.5 x 25.2 cm (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.2 x 29.4 cm (9 1/8 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.143.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 554, State i/ii

Associated Artworks

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Apollo Killing Coronis

Robert de Baudous

1590

Jupiter in the Disguise of Diana Seduces Callisto

Robert de Baudous

1590

Apollo Entrusting Chiron with the Education of Asclepius

1590

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre); purchased by NGA 2003.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 554, i/ii.

Inscriptions

numbered in plate, in margin at bottom left: 3; in margin below image, in plate: Exurit pontum et terras Clymeneia proles / Nereidumque ferit maesta querela polum. / Arescunt fontes, arescit Xanthus et Ister / Aestuat ipse sua mole gravatus Atlas. (Clymene's son scorches the sea and the earth, the sad lament of the Nereids touches heaven. Springs run dry, the Xanthus and the Danube dry up, and Atlas himself, with his heavy loan on his back, is burning hot.) [Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 111.]

Wikidata ID

Q76360392

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