Apollo Entrusting Chiron with the Education of Asclepius

1590

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Related Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist After, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image shows two central figures prominently in the foreground. The figure on the left is a centaur, with a muscular upper human body and a horse's lower body, standing upright and facing the right. The centaur's facial features include a pronounced nose, a beard, and curly hair. The centaur wears a draped cloth over one shoulder. The figure on the right is a male human, also muscular, standing with one leg forward and holding a small child in his arms. This man has curly hair and an expressionless face, with a drapery covering his lower body in a classical style. In terms of background, the scene presents a rustic setting with a wooden structure resembling a house or stable, trees, a hillside, and distant mountains. Other figures can be seen in the background, including another centaur and a human child near the wooden structure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Hack

  • Accession Number

    2008.55.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 566, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalia (Lugt 567); Charles Hack, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

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, no. 65

1949

  • Hollstein
    Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, no. 542.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 566, i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 15; lower center in plate: Insoutiem sobolem, nec sonte Coronide, Apollo... / ... Palaulatium forman filia sumit equip.

Wikidata ID

Q76439076