Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé

published 1757

Longus

Author, Greek, active 3rd century

Simon Fokke

Etcher, Netherlandish, 1712 - 1784

Benoît Audran II

Etcher, French, 1698 - 1772

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: text and ill: 29 plates (versos blank) etched by Benoît Audran after Philippe II, duc d' Orléans and Antoine Coypel; 8 tail-pieces etched by Simon Fokke after Charles-Nicolas Cochin II and 8 head-pieces etched by Simon Fokke after Charles Eisen

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    page size: 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 21 x 16.3 x 4.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.36.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodore H. Broadhead (book plate); C.H. St. John Hornby (1867-1946), Shelley House, Chelsea (book plate); Museo Hans Furstenberg (book plate) (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 7-8 December 1995, lot 384); (Marlborough Rare Books, Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1996.

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