Apollo and Daphne
Italian School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Black chalk on paper
Measurements
146 x 278 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 129922
Summary
Black chalk on paper, squared drawing (possibly for a tapestry), Apollo and Daphne, Italian School, 17th century. The female figure, partially draped is fleeing from the male, also partially draped. Her arms are upraised and she turning into a laurel tree. Her father, the river god Peneus is sitting on bottom right. In a tortoiseshell frame.
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist previously catalogued as after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Naples 1598 – Rome 1680), artist