Medea sacrificing a black ram to Hebe and Hecate, Plate 19 from "L'Histoire de Jason et de la conquête de la toison d'or (The Tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece)"
René Boyvin, French, about 1525 - 1625
after Leonard Thiry, Flemish, active 1536 - 1550
1563
Engraving on laid paper
Latin edition
Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (16.1 × 23.1 cm)
Plate: 1 1/4 × 9 1/16 in. (3.1 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 14 1/8 in. (25.3 × 35.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alan N. Stone and D. Lesley Hill
PR.995.50
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in image plate, center: B; inscribed, in lower plate, center: 19; inscribed, in lower plate, lower left: Statuítqz aras è cespite binas: / Dexteriore Hecates & laua parte Iuuentae [ae in ligature]; inscribed, in lower plater, lower right: Sacra facit cultrósqz in gultura uelleris atri / Conijcit & patulas perfundit sanguine fossas; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 15
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 16.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 16.
Catalogue Raisonne
Robert-Dusmesnil 57 ii/iii; Levron 34, Latin edition
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