print
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.734
- Title
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Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France
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Series: Galerie d'Aguilles
- Description
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Plate 42: Actaeon and Diana; inside a cave, Diana bathing while Actaeon watches, while antlers starting to grow on the hunter's head, nymphs resting in foreground; after Johann Liss. 1700
Engraving
- Production date
- 1700
- Dimensions
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Height: 389 millimetres
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Width: 280 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1855,0609.753 for comment on the series.
After a painting in private collection in England (on sale Sotheby's London, July 2012). The painting was formerly attributed to Johann Liss, see B. Bushart, 'Johann Liss', exh.cat. Augsburg and Cleveland Museum of Art, Augsburg, 1975, cat.no.A8 and Richard E. Spear, 'Johann Liss Reconsidered', in Art Bulletin 58 (1976), p.584, fig.2. The painting was rejected as Liss in Klessman's catalogue raisonné, see R. Klessman, 'Johann Liss : a monograph and catalogue raisonné', p.193.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.734
