Plaque with Apollo and Daphne

ca. 1650 (Baroque)

20.6 cm 16 cm

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The story of Daphne is told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) in "The Metamorphoses." Cupid, god of love, shot the god Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow, kindling his love for the nymph Daphne, but Cupid shot her with one tipped with lead, stifling love. Pursued by Apollo, D...

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Ralph Bernal [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, March 5, 1855, lot 1530; T. Russell Kent [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, November 24, 1908, lot 71; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 21, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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