ECL-Bm.8:53-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:53-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Hippolytus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 51, 52 and 53 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
On left Phaedra sits on her throne, accompanied by two attendants, one of whom leans on the back of the throne. A winged putto leans on Phaedra's knee, while Cupid and Psyche embrace by the side of the throne, an over-turned urn at their side. A nurse leans forward from the side of Phaedra towards Hippolytus, who stands half-nude and holding a rod, with an old man on his right. Virtus, wearing a short tunic and carrying a shield, leads a horse from behind Hippolytus to right; a hound sits between her feet, another runs to right with a huntsman. On right is the hunt scene. Hippolytus and a huntsman gallop together to right. Hippolytus aims his weapon at the boar, which leaps from between two tree trunks on right over the carcass of a deer and strikes a hound with its forepaw. Virtus stands by Hippolytus' horse, a running hound by her feet. A wounded huntsman and a fallen horse are on the ground in the foreground beneath the hooves of the galloping horses. A huntsman on right behind the boar raises his club over his head to strike.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Villa Pamfilia
Dimensions
height (actual size): 406mm
width (actual size): 261mm
width (actual size): 261mm
Dimension note
Width, double
Inscription
Campiglia Villa Pamfilia, a fianco del Palazzo verso ponente in muro contiguo al Palazzo
C written in pencil on the front of the drawing, lower left
B4 written in ink on the front of the drawing, lower left, truncated
C written in pencil on the front of the drawing, lower left
B4 written in ink on the front of the drawing, lower left, truncated
Inscription description
Written in the album in which the drawings are held:
no. 51 1 A 2
no. 52/53 3 B 4
no. 51 1 A 2
no. 52/53 3 B 4
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Rossi (III. 244.3)
• RR (III.2 no. 166)
• ASR
• RR (III.2 no. 166)
• ASR
