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Orpheus Charming the Animals
Jacob Hoefnagel1613
The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, United States
Court painter to Rudolf II in Prague from 1602 to 1613, Hoefnagel
specialized in small format mythological scenes on vellum or copper.
This drawing is such a work, and its date and exquisite finish suggest
that it may have been a courtly commission. The subject was popular in
northern European art in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries, reflecting the vogue for encyclopedic representations of
nature.
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Details
- Title: Orpheus Charming the Animals
- Creator: Jacob Hoefnagel
- Creator Lifespan: ca. 1630
- Creator Death Place: Holland
- Creator Birth Place: Antwerp
- Date Created: 1613
- Physical Dimensions: w210 x h166 mm
- Credit Line: Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978
- Type: Drawing
- External Link: http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/144428
- Medium: Watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on vellum mounted on panel, bordered in gold
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