Antiope
17th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with red chalk wash
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.62
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, *Antiope* is a 17th-century Italian drawing, gifted by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1880. Created anonymously by an Italian artist during the Baroque era, this sheet measures 8⅞ × 11½ inches and depicts the mythological figure Antiope amid soldiers, evoking classical tales of pursuit and divine encounter. Antiope, often portrayed in Renaissance and Baroque art as a mortal woman seduced by Zeus (as the satyr or in disguise), here gains drama through the inclusion of soldiers, suggesting a narrative of conflict or captivity d...