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 Number
1942.9.883
Associated Artworks
See all 35 artworksDaphne poursuivie par Apollon, et changee en Laurier par son Pere
Charles Monnet
1767
Album of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 2)
Various Artists
1767
Daphne poursuivie par Apollon, et changee en Laurier par son Pere
Jean-Charles Baquoy
1767
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