Plate with Apollo and Daphne

1535 (Renaissance)

24.7 cm 3.4 cm

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This plate shows a scene from the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE—17CE) “Metamorphoses” (Book I). Cupid, god of erotic love, tricks the god Apollo into falling in love with the nymph Daphne, daughter of the river-god Peneus. Apollo chases Daphne until she comes to the river...

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Baron Seillière [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); T.B. Clarke [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 609]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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