# Bacchantes with Apollo and Daphne [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCO, Battista]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Etching on laid paper \(first state of two\), 87 x 190 mm ## Commentary Bacchantes with Apollo and Daphne c. 1550 Etching on laid paper \(first state of two\), 87 x 190 mm Private collection Daphne has just been transformed into a laurel tree and a rout of male and female followers of the riots of Bacchus have arrived playing cymbals and biting serpents. The subject of this print is more than mythological. Apollo's desire for Daphne leads to her flight and her prayer than she not be taken by Apollo; her father, the river-god Peneus, transforms her into a laurel tree, which the disappointed Apollo transforms into his reward for poets and conquerors. ## Related artworks - [Arrest of the Baptist]() - [Old Man Seated before a Statue of a Goddess]() - [The Abduction of Deianeira]() - [The Baptism of Christ between Sts. Francis and Bernardine of Siena]() - [The Battle of Montemurlo and the Rape of Ganymede]() - [View of the Grimani Chapel]() - [View of the vault]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()