Bowl with Apollo and Daphne

ca. 1530 (Renaissance)

26.2 cm 5.1 cm

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This bowl depicts a scene from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE—17AD) “Metamorphoses” (Book I), in which the nymph Daphne is pursued by Apollo and saved from his advances at the last moment by her father, the river-god Peneus, who turned her into a laurel tree. Peneus reclines in...

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Madame d'Yvon [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 58]; H. Wencke, Hamburg [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Seligmann, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 11, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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