Ganymed on the eagle

Title

Ganymed on the eagle

Draughtsman

• Carlo Maratti

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• red chalk
• Vergé paper

Technique

• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Roman

Production Reason

• figure study

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): No 6
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Persons Shown

• Ganymed
• Zeus

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Homer
• Virgil
• Ovid

Illustrated Passage

• Homer: Ilias, 5, 265-267
• Homer: Ilias, 20, 215-235
• Vergil: Aeneis, 5, 252-260
• Ovid: Metamorphosen, 10, 155-157

Primary

• 92BB121 the rape of Ganymede: he is carried off through the air by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, or by the eagle of Jupiter