Description According to the Roman writer Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), these young lovers each committed suicide thinking that the other had died.
Conservation Date Description Narrative 9/21/1964Treatmentcleaned; other1/25/1988Treatmentcleaned; other; examined for condition 5/09/1991Examinationexamined for condition
Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.