Apollo, from a suite of ornament designs with grotesques and deities
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Apollo, from a suite of ornament designs with grotesques and deities
- Artist: Etienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19–1583 Strasbourg)
- Date: before 1559
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 1 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (4.4 × 3.1 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
- Object Number: 62.635.56(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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