Alcyone looks out over the sea. Half figure, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein-Stub, 1810

Motif from ovid: metamorphoses, 11. Song v. 710 ff. , cf. : "then she directs her gaze / out over the sea in sorrow. And she sees a thing in the distance in the water's / glittering waves. It resembles a body. . ", ovid's metamorphoses, volume ii, p. 110. Object Type: drawing. Date: 1810. Dimensions: height: 299 mm (11.77 in); width: 399 mm (15.70 in). Medium: pencil and charcoal. Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst. CG Kratzenstein Stub, Alcyone ser ud over havet Halvfigur, 1810, KKSgb6426, Statens Museum for Kunst