Orpheus and Eurydice

An engraving shows a long-haired woman in a loose, flowing robe walking beside a bearded man wearing a laurel-like crown and a short pleated tunic. He holds a lyre against his shoulder and rests his hand on hers, while both stand on a ground with tufts of grass and rocks. Fine parallel hatching models the bodies and the sky, and the lyre and staff are rendered in crisp, delicate lines.

Look closer: A small bird or stone detail is hard to see; the bottom-right rocks hold tufted plants.

Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

Date

ca. 1500–1506

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2686 × 3479 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956