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Destruction of Niobe's Children
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Destruction of Niobe's Children

by Attributed to Crescenzio Onofri

Date: 17th Century

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Bourgeois Bequest, 1811

  • Accession number

    DPG213

  • Artist

    Attributed to Crescenzio Onofri

  • Date

    17th Century

  • Dimensions

    93.4 x 135 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Onofri was a pupil in Rome of Gaspard Dughet, whose style he imitated with great success. In 1689 he moved to Florence to work for prince Ferdinando de' Medici. The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto, to whom Niobe has declared herself superior on account of her fecundity.

Destruction of Niobe's Children

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