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Eaque refuse a Minos le secourse ...

published 1767/1771

Nicolas Ponce

Artist, French, 1746 - 1831

Nicolas Ponce after Charles Monnet

Medium

etching and engraving with stipple
Credit Line

Widener Collection
Accession Number

1942.9.988

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Album of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 5)

Various Artists

1767

Progné fait servir à Terée dans un repas la Tête de son fils Itys qu'elle avoit poignardé

Joseph de Longueil

1767

Le chaleur du Soleil fond la cire qui attachoit les ailes d'Icare ...

François Denis Née

1767

Artwork history & notes

Wikidata ID

Q64960807

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