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Mercure arrette sur la ville d'Athenes devient amoureux d'Herse

published 1767/1771

Jean Jacques Le Veau

Artist, French, 1729 - 1785

Jean Jacques Le Veau after Charles Eisen

Medium

etching and engraving with stipple
Credit Line

Widener Collection
Accession Number

1942.9.902

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Album of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 3)

Various Artists

1767

Mercure entre dans l'apartement d'Herse ...

Hubert François Gravelot

1767

La Nymphe Salmacis veut embrasser le jeune Hermaphrodite ...

Charles Monnet

1767

Artwork history & notes

Wikidata ID

Q64959006

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