Les Muses et Les Pierides

Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Boucher-Desnoyers; After Rosso Fiorentino

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

Not on view

Title

Les Muses et Les Pierides

Date

1829

Medium

Engraving

Classification

Print

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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