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Cydippe with the Apple of Acontius
Also titled Cydippe met de appel van Acontius
Paulus Bor (Amersfoort, ca. –1669)
c. 1645 - c. 1655
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 151 cm x width 113.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This scene is taken from the Heroides by the Roman poet Ovid. When Cydippe went to make an offering at the temple of Diana, Acontius, who was secretly in love with her, threw an apple inside with the following words written on it: ‘I swear by the sanctuary of Diana that I will marry Acontius.’ Cydippe read the words aloud, thus turning them into a solemn vow.
