About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
written by Ovid (Italian, 43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
printed by Louis Fort (French, 19th-20th centuries)
published by Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904-1973)

Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent, from Les Métamorphoses, October 11, 1930, published 1931

Etching on ivory Japanese paper
273 x 175 mm (image); 310 x 222 mm (plate); 330 x 254 mm (sheet)
Given in memory of A. Peter Dewey, 1946.65.20

Baer & Geiser 162 III/III, b; Bloch 118; Geiser 162 III/III, b

© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York