Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent

A pen and brown wash drawing of a group of women in a wooded landscape. A figure in the foreground sits and recoils as a serpent curls near her foot, while companions crowd around, reaching and gesturing. Loose wash and fine hatching model the draped garments and the rough foliage behind them.

Look closer: A small serpent coils on the ground at the lower center, near the bitten woman's foot.

Artist

Hendrick de Clerck

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3594 × 2362 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957