Salmacis en Hermaphroditus, Herman van Swanevelt, 1629 - 1641

Title(s)

Salmacis en Hermaphroditus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-60.869

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 25-2(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Salmacis zit onder een boom, terwijl Hermaphroditus in het water baadt.

Artist

• print maker: Herman van Swanevelt (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Giovanni Battista de'Rossi (mentioned on object)

Place

Rome

Dating

1629 - 1641

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 157 mm × width 208 mm

What

• when Hermaphroditus bathes in a fountain, Salmacis, the nymph of the fountain, falls in love with him
• Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373)

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Samuel de Swaef to Jan Thesing, p. 63, cat.nr. 25