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Description: | Signed: yes Description: A wooded landscape with trees to either side and a distant view of mountains between. In foreground are a large group of women in classical costume. The central figure of Eurydice lifts her arms in dismay as she is bitten on the right heel by a small snake. Her companions scatter in alarm. In left foreground two stone pedestals of a gateway are surmounted by carved griffons. The story is from Ovid's Metamorphoses, 10.8-10. Orpheus, singing son of Calliope, the Muse of poetry, married Eurydice. On their wedding day, Eurydice was bitten by a snake and died. Orpheus went down to Hades to try to bring her back. | Subjects: | landscape; mythology (Eurydice; Ovid; Metamorphoses); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hennin, Adriaen de (Dutch painter, active 1664, died 1710) Æ Previously attributed to Glauber, Johannes Gottlieb (Dutch painter and printmaker, of German descent) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8781... | Go to resource |
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