Echo and Narcissus

Ferrari, Gregorio de (1644-1726)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
late 17th-early 18th c.
Height:
48.3 cm  (19 in.)
Width:
34.4 cm  (13 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, partly indented with stylus

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1974.75.1]

Description

In the foreground, a coiled horn and a curved horn lie on the ground.

Iconclass

95A(NARCISSUS)21
Narcissus, gazing in a fountain, falls in love with his own reflection; possibly the nymph Echo peeps at the scene

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hunting horn [4138]
Horn (curved)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4006