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Circe Punishes Glaucus by Turning Scylla into a Monster
Also titled Circe straft Glaucus door Scylla in een monster te veranderen
Eglon van der Neer (Amsterdam, 1634–1703)
1695
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 3.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the G.H. Sant Bequest and the ministerie van WVC
- 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
The unsightly, but good-natured sea god Glaucus was in love with Scylla, but this was unrequited. To win her over, he sought the help of the sorceress Circe. This was a mistake, for Circe was herself in love with him. In a fit of rage, she changed poor Scylla into a monster. Van der Neer set the story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in sinister surroundings. Gesturing theatrically, the sorceress performs her vengeful deed.
