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Phaëton Driving the Chariot of the Sun (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
School of: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.5 x 25.2 cm (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1727
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 052
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1726; in graphite: [?]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Audet Phebeas stulte attentare quadrigas,/Atqz impar humeris munus obire suis; right: Infelix audet Phaeton, quod numina terret,/Humanas mentes tanta libido rapit.; lower left: 2
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.