Jupiter Bringing Water of the Styx to Psyche

c. 1540

Léon Davent

Artist, French, active 1540 - 1556

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to platemark): 20.3 x 39 cm (8 x 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.162.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zerner 1969, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased 1976; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 20.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1969

  • Zerner, Henri. Ecole de Fontainebleau, gravures.Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1969. English ed. The School of Fontainebleau, etchings and engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Inscriptions

lower left: IVLIVS / INVEN. / TOR; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 327

Wikidata ID

Q76347319

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