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Io Changed Into a Cow

Drawing
17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Metamorphosis of Io; Juno, having changed Io into a cow, delivers her in charge of Argus.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleIo Changed Into a Cow (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brown and greybrown wash, and some corrections in opaque white
Brief description
Drawing, 'Io Changed Into a Cow', Rembrandt van Rijn (School of), Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description
Metamorphosis of Io; Juno, having changed Io into a cow, delivers her in charge of Argus.
Dimensions
  • Height: 198mm
  • Width: 305mm
Dimensions taken from: Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014.
Style
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 430
  • Inscribed on verso, at upper left, in an old hand, in black chalk, No 115
  • Inscribed on mount below drawing, in pencil: at lower left and centre, by Dyce, Juno having changed Io into a cow, delivers her in charge of Argus, and to the right of this, also by Dyce, Rembrandt; further to the right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 736
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 165, illus. p.218.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.430

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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