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Jupiter and Antiope: the larger plate

1659

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The story

Rembrandt drew the sleeping Antiope so frankly that she seems taken from a live model, lips parted and arms flung over her head. Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, comes to her bed at night and lifts the sheet to look. Rembrandt had etched the same myth around 1631.

Source, Rijksmuseum

Object details

Title: Jupiter and Antiope: the larger plate
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date: 1659
Culture: Dutch
Medium: Etching, drypoint and burin
Object type: Prints
Collection: SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Credit line: Image source open.smk.dk. License Public domain (SMK open data, public_domain=true, rights https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/).
Object number: EFA.0350
Original image: 3000 × 2052 px
Source record: View on open.smk.dk
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Rembrandt van Rijn. Jupiter and Antiope: the larger plate. 1659. SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Image source open.smk.dk. License Public domain (SMK open data, public_domain=true, rights https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0350/