Plate 100: The death of Orpheus, from "Ovid's Metamorphoses"

An etched landscape in which a seated musician with a lyre rests beneath a tree at left, while a crowd of figures with raised weapons and staves surges in from the right. Rolling clouds and a distant town fill the open background, and fine hatched lines model the rocks and ground.

Look closer: A small figure of a town with buildings and a tower on the distant hillside.

Artist

Johann Wilhelm Baur

Date

1641

Medium

Etching

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2516 × 1628 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962