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| Keywords: Jacques Laudin I - Plaque with Apollo and Daphne - Walters 44280.jpg The story of Daphne is told by the Roman poet Ovid 43 BC-AD 17 in The Metamorphoses Cupid god of love shot the god Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow kindling his love for the nymph Daphne but Cupid shot her with one tipped with lead stifling love Pursued by Apollo Daphne prayed to her father a river god to save her and she was transformed into a laurel tree Ovid's tales were popular for their eroticism In addition the idea of metamorphosis a fundamental divinely sanctioned change of state offered a way of thinking about the creative act as in the transformation of a chunk of copper ore into a bronze statuette Jacques Laudin who monogrammed this plaque adapted the composition from an engraving of 1589 after a drawing by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius The frame is original ca 1650 Baroque painted enamel and gilded copper gilded brass frame cm 16 20 6 accession number 44 280 760 Ralph Bernal date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale London March 5 1855 lot 1530 T Russell Kent date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale London November 24 1908 lot 71 George Robinson Harding London date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore May 21 1912 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges enamel - 17th century Jacques Laudin I Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Apollo and Daphne | ||||
