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Atalanta's race
Maker
1532-1603
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Dimensions
Width: 32 cm
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Keywords
racing
Label Text
Although the story warns against greed for gold and sensual temptation, de Vos imbued his depiction with sensory appeal by adopting an expressive drawing technique that captures the wild race and entices the senses of the viewer.
In the last years of his life, Maerten de Vos prepared a series of illustrations for a publication of the Roman author Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses. In several instances, the artist revisited and reworked some of his earlier compositions. This drawing is one of de Vos’s initial ideas for a print depicting the story of the race between Atalanta and Hippomenes.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Renaissance Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/04/2015-07/06/2015
Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978
Literature
cat. no. 4
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: "Loopen om prys".
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