Plate with Orpheus and Eurydice

1680-1690 (Baroque)

18.5 cm 1.1 cm

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The god Orpheus and his mortal wife Eurydice are depicted at the terrible moment that he loses her forever. Eurydice died from the bite of a poisonous snake and was taken to the underworld; however, her distraught husband Orpheus, being a god, was able to negotiate with Hades,...

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Sangiorgi, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknwn]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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