Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa

1767

Charles Monnet

Artist, French, 1732 - after 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with brown and gray wash over traces of graphite, with double border line by the artist in pen and gray ink, on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (to outer framing line): 13.4 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.948

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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, no.

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 pen and gray ink at lower left below the framing line: Carle Monnet. inv del. 1767

Wikidata ID

Q64538754


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