Plate 38: The Fury Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas (Thesiphone regem, reginamq in furorem agit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/16 × 4 9/16 in. (10.3 × 11.6 cm)
Collection no.: 51.501.3889
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Plate 38: The Fury Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas (Thesiphone regem, reginamq in furorem agit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' — Antonio Tempesta. 1606.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/16 × 4 9/16 in. (10.3 × 11.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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