Les Muses et Les Pierides
Caption
Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Boucher-Desnoyers (French, 1779–1857); After Rosso Fiorentino. Les Muses et Les Pierides, 1829. Engraving, sheet: 16 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (42.9 x 62.9 cm) image: 13 3/8 x 23 in. (34 x 58.4 cm) mat: 22 x 30 1/4 in. (55.9 x 76.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan and George H. Sullivan, 19.184.98.
Gallery
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Gallery
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Title
Les Muses et Les Pierides
Date
1829
Medium
Engraving
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 16 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (42.9 x 62.9 cm) image: 13 3/8 x 23 in. (34 x 58.4 cm) mat: 22 x 30 1/4 in. (55.9 x 76.8 cm)
Signatures
Unsigned
Inscriptions
Below image center: "Tableau du Musee Royal"; below image left: "Peint par Perino del vaga Buonacors; Elève et collaborateur de Raphael"; below image right: "Dessine et gravé par le bon Boucher-Desnoyers per graveur du Roi"; below title: "Le neuf filles ... pŕesident au combat"; bottom right: "Imprime par Durand & Sauvel"; verso upper left in graphite: "5.4 XIX"; verso lower right in graphite: "81"
Markings
Monogram bottom left; stamped verso center: "Sullivan Collection"; overstamped "Cancelled B. M."
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan and George H. Sullivan
Accession Number
19.184.98
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