Cornelis Bloemaert, Peter Paul Rubens, and others
Meleager and Atalanta
1626-1629
Scroll
- Artist: Cornelis Bloemaert
- Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
- Publisher: Cornelis Bloemaert
Meleager and Atalanta
1626-1629
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 225 × 166 mm. (8 7/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
Image: 199 × 163 mm. (7 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.14458
Meleager presenting to Atalanta the head of the wild boar of Caledonia.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower margin, in plate six lines of text from Ovid in two columns beginning "Atque ita [...]"; below image and text, lower left, in plate "P.P. Rubens pinxit"; below image and text, lower center, in plate "Cornelis Bloemaert sculp: et excud:"
Markings: CM: possibly "DB" in graphite (not in Lugt); Claghorn
