ARTWORKS

Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'

Flemish (Antwerp) School

Weston Park

Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
1/11

Image credit: Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation

How you can use this image

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).

Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

The small paintings based upon depictions from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses': Minerva and the Muses (Book VI); Pentheus attacked by Bacchus's worshippers (Book III); Cipus overlooking Latium from his exile (Book XV); the Muses turning the Pierides into birds (Book V); (Apollo) Midas judging the music contest between Apollo and Pan (Book XI); Medea and Daughters of Pellas (Book VIII); Ajax and Ulysses fight over Achilles' armour; Hecuba and the captured women seize the Thracian king (Book XIII).

The paintings were originally intended to decorate the panels of a Low Countries cabinet; they were found in a drawer in the House at Weston Park and were reframed as a cabinet frontal in circa 2005.

Weston Park

Shifnal

Title

Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'

Medium

oil on copper

Measurements

H 64 x W 102.5 cm

Accession number

101.0360

Acquisition method

gift from Lord Bradford via National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1986

Work type

Painting

Tags

This artwork does not have any tags yet. You can help by tagging artworks on Tagger.

Normally on display at

Weston Park

Weston-under-Lizard, Shifnal, Shropshire TF11 8LE England

This venue is open to the public. Not all artworks are on display. If you want to see a particular artwork, please contact the venue.
View venue

Artist or maker

Flemish (Antwerp) School

View profile
  • The Adoration of the Magi
    The Adoration of the Magi Royal Albert Hall
  • The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
    The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Brighton & Hove Museums
  • The Adoration of the Magi
    The Adoration of the Magi Touchstones Rochdale
  • Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
    Eight Scenes from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' Weston Park
  • The Judgement of Solomon
    The Judgement of Solomon Manchester Art Gallery