Apollo and Diana

c. 1503

Jacopo de' Barbari

Associated Names
Jacopo de' Barbari

Artist, Venetian, c. 1460/1470 - 1516 or before

The image shows a male figure standing with one foot elevated, drawing a bow, and preparing to shoot an arrow. His body is poised with one arm extended forward and the other bent back, holding the bowstring. The figure has long, flowing hair that cascades down his back and face, with a concentrated expression. He is depicted nude and carries a quiver of arrows slung over his shoulder. The background features a pattern of radiating lines and dots, possibly resembling a celestial map, with a second male figure with flowing hair and an illuminated halo-like glow behind the main figure. The upper left corner contains a symbol resembling intertwined loops.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16 x 9.8 cm (6 5/16 x 3 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1941.1.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.153, no. 14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Francis Seymour Haden [1818-1910], London (Lugt 1227)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 70, repro.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 263.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.141 (a).

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 156-157, fig. 3.20.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64958528

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