Plate 99: The Death of Orpheus (Orpheus a Bacchis discerpitur), from O

An etching of Orpheus seated on a rock at right, one arm raised, as a group of women with staves and raised weapons advances from the left. A tree trunk frames the scene against a hazy landscape, and a Latin caption below names the subject of the plate.

Look closer: The plate number 99 is printed in the lower left corner.

Artist

Antonio Tempesta

Date

1606

Medium

Etching

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1448 × 1281 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951