Print Description
Subject: Antique print, untitled. Apollo and Diana kill the fourteen children of Niobe with bow and arrow. Niobe is depicted on the left, trying to protect her children.
Condition: Good, given age. Some light staining. Stamp on reverse. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid paper with watermark: coat of arms of Burgundy-Austria with golden fleece below, similar to Laurentius 166.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 37.8 x 25.7 cm. The image size is ca. 37.8 x 25.7 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 14.9 x 10.1 inch. The image size is ca. 14.9 x 10.1 inch.
Part Number: 45539
Location: PCO-B3-02 (DEO)
Description: One of eight engraving printed from eight plates on eight sheets (sheets joined in sequence as a frieze) depicting ‘the Punishment of Niobe’. Dated 1594. Ref: B. 33; Holl. 113. Collection mark of J.H. Halbertsma (Lugt 1473).
Artists and Engravers: Made by Jan Saenredam after Hendrick Goltzius and Polidoro da Caravaggio, (Italian, c. 1499 – 1543). Jan Saenredam (1565-1607). Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and publisher. He was a student of Coornhert. In his early life he was mainly active as engraver. Around 1600 he started painting, too.
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