Orpheus standing at left playing the violin, Eurydice at right coverin

An engraving shows two nude figures in a grassy landscape. At left, a laurel-crowned man with long hair and a beard plays a violin, his drapery falling from one shoulder. At right, a woman turns her head downward, one hand on her breast and a cloth trailing behind her, beside a large bare tree trunk.

Look closer: A small bird-like shape and sprig near the figures' feet are hard to separate from the grass tufts.

Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

Date

ca. 1509

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2774 × 3571 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941