Plate with Hypermnestra Watching Lynceus Take Her Father's Crown

1537 (Renaissance)

25.5 cm 2.3 cm

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The decoration of this istoriato (with a story) plate consists of an episode from a Greek myth in which a king named Danaus gave his daughter Hypermnestra in marriage to her cousin Lynceus. Danaus feared losing his throne to Lynceus, however, and ordered his daughter to kill h...

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H. Wencke Collection, Hamburg (no. 49) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); J. Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May, 7 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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