Apollo, from a suite of ornament designs with grotesques and deities
Etienne Delaune French
Not on view
Engraving, part of a series of six oval plates with ornament designs with grotesque motifs and divinities, designed by Étienne Delaune before 1559. This print represents Apollo, sitting on a chariot pulled by two leaping horses, holding a scepter on his left hand, under an arch formed by a curved branch with laurel leaves. On the lower part of the print is Damphne, being converted into a laurel, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, between two grotesque dolphin motifs. Around Apollo are also butterflies, snails and urns with smoke, common motifs in the grotesque motifs designed by Delaune.
