Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa
1767
Artist, French, 1732 - after 1808
Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (to outer framing line): 13.4 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.948
Associated Artworks
See all 35 artworksAlbum of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 4)
Various Artists
1767
Minerve va sur le Mont Helicon pour visiter les Muses
Jean Jacques Le Veau
1767
Ceres apprend par Arethuse que Pluton avoit enleve sa Fille Proserpine
Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger
1767
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