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Atalanta and Hippomemes, in the foreground Atalanta kneeling to pick up an apple and Hippomemes running with an apple in either hand, in the landscape background Atalanta running, from a series of four mythological scenes

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Atalanta and Hippomemes, in the foreground Atalanta kneeling to pick up an apple and Hippomemes running with an apple in either hand, in the landscape background Atalanta running, from a series of four mythological scenes

ca. 1535–62

Medium

Engraving

Tags

Apples Men Women Landscapes

Dimensions

sheet: 2 5/16 x 3 9/16 in. (5.9 x 9.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Virgil Solis

1514–1562 • Holy Roman Empire

German, (?) 1514–1562 Nuremberg

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