Cyparisse voulent de donner la mort, est metamorphose en cypres par Apollon

Monnet, Charles (1732-after 1808)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1768
Technique / Medium:
pen and black ink and brush and brown ink with brown wash

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1942.9.1037]

Description

Apollo holding lyre. From album of drawings & prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide"

Iconclass

97A3
Cyparissus changed into a cypress: when pining away for the loss of his favourite stag, Cyparissus the hunter, minion of Apollo, is changed into a cypress by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 106)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4041