Jupiter and Callisto
1765
Artist, French, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove(?) paper, laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 13.2 x 8.9 cm (5 3/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.883
Associated Artworks
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François Denis Née
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Coronis poursuivie par Neptune, et Métamorphosée en Corneille par Minerve
Jacques Le Roy
1767
Ocyroe Fille du Centaure Chiron announce a son Pere les destinees du jeune Esculape
Jean Massard
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Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 214-216, 288-289, no. 93b (color).
Bibliography
1877
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt.1): 33, 40; 1 (pt. 2); 199-200, 211, 286, 293, 358; 2 (pt. 1): 399-400, 402-403, 411, 426-427, 459; 2 (pt. 2): 687 (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 772 (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
1923
Ricci, Seymour de. A Checklist of the More Important French Illustrated Books of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [21] (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
Inscriptions
signed and dated in graphite below the image at lower left: C.h .. Eisen, inv...et..f. 1765
Wikidata ID
Q64538497