Piero del PollaiuoloItalian, 1443–1496Apollo and Daphne
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Apollo and Daphne” now? Collection: The National Gallery, London. Unknown.
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Apollo and Daphne is a c.1470–1480 oil on panel painting, attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo (and/or his brother Antonio). William Coningham acquired it in Rome in 1845 and in 1876 Wynne Ellis left it to the National Gallery, London, where it still hangs. It shows Daphne's transformation into a laurel tree to escape Apollo in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Its choice of wood as a support and its small dimensions mean that it was long mistaken as a fragment of a decorative cassone. It was long attributed to Antonio but is now usually attributed to Piero. The background vegetation was previously brighter but is now irreversibly oxidized.
Details
- Accession number
- NG928
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — Piero del Pollaiuolo · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
