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Source Description
This pair of salt cellars is decorated with the popular tale of Actaeon from "The Metamorphoses" by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17). Actaeon, a young hunter, accidentally sees the goddess Diana bathing. She notices the young hunter and, in a rage, transforms him into a stag. Actaeon's hunting dogs do not recognize him and kill him. The moral of this story was that it is possible to sin unintentionally.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
77431
label
Pair of Salt Cellars with the Story of Actaeon
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
77431
sourceUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Pair of Salt Cellars with the Story of Actaeon
description
This pair of salt cellars is decorated with the popular tale of Actaeon from "The Metamorphoses" by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17). Actaeon, a young hunter, accidentally sees the goddess Diana bathing. She notices the young hunter and, in a rage, transforms him into a stag. Actaeon's hunting dogs do not recognize him and kill him. The moral of this story was that it is possible to sin unintentionally.
provenance
Frederic Spitzer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 17, 1893, lot 519-20; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1555
citationUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
saltcellars
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
8.2
height
13.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 1/4 x W: 5 1/4 in. (8.2 x 13.4 cm)
Source extras
med
painted enamel on copper
creator_ids
5948
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
0d2f28e329b2ab0d