Arion playing his harp, carried by a dolphin to the shores of Taenarum

Muller, Jan Harmensz (1571-1628)

Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Cornelis (1562-1638) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1590

Height:

34.9 cm  (13 3/4 in.)

Width:

36.0 cm  (14 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving, on paper

Place of creation:

Nederland

Description

Arion is seated naked on a large dolphin in a stormy ocean playing a harp and looking up into the heavens where storm clouds are parted with a sailing ship in the background.

Iconclass

988(ARION)51
Arion rides on a dolphin, holding his lyre

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barryte, Bernard. Myth, allegory, and faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist prints (Stanford, Ca.: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) app. 628.

Thiel, P. J. J. van. and Diane L. Webb. Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem, 1562-1638: A monograph and catalogue raisonné. Aetus aurea 13 (Doornspijk, The Netherlands: Davaco Publishers, 1999) cat. p. 10. ISBN 9789070288969.

McGee, Julie L. Cornelis Corneliszoon Van Haarlem (1562-1638): Patrons, friends, and Dutch humanists. Bibliotheca humanistica & reformatorica v. 48 (Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1991) 239, 250–252, 328, fig. 64. ISBN 9789060044131.

Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen, eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Budapest: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956) v. 2, 30.

Lindeman, C. M. A. A. Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael (Utrecht: A. Oosthoek, 1929) 221, note 1.

Kok, Filedt, Jan Piet, Erik Hinterding and Jan van der Waals. "Jan Harmensz: Muller as Printmaker", Print Quarterly 11/3 (Sept. 1994): 230; part 3, 12, no. B.32, fig. 9.

Notes

Provenance: Giuseppe Storck, Milan, 1798, inv. no. 6571 (L.2319).

RIdIM record id

5195