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- Museum number
- 1855,0609.141
- Title
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Object: Jupiter et Alcmene
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Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France
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Series: Recueil Crozat
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Series: Cabinet Crozat
- Description
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Jupiter and Alcmene seated on a bed, with Mercury with a man who is pointing towards them, after the cartoon by Perino del Vaga for the tapestries of the Loves of Jupiter. c.1729/40
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1729-1740 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 308 millimetres
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Width: 340 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The fourth of five plates from the 'Cabinet Crozat' (see 1907,1121.14 for comment on series) after the cartoons of the 'Loves of Jupiter'. These used to be attributed to Giulio Romano, and were first recognised as being Perino's documented designs of c.1531/2 for the tapestries in the salone di Giove in the Palazzo Doria in Genoa by Davidson in 1988.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.141
