Castor and Pollux Rescuing Helen

1818

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and ink with wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache on toned paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.2 x 38.8 cm (12 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.152.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(De Bayser S.A., Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 94.

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 5.

Inscriptions

lower left in ink: S: Norblin / 1818

Wikidata ID

Q64630708

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