print
- Museum number
- 1856,0308.1136
- Title
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Object: Le jeune Pyrrhus sauvé
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Series: Galerie du Musée Napoléon
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Series: Musée Napoléon
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Series: Galerie Napoléon
- Description
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Rescue of Pyrrhus, after Poussin: Androclides and Angelus, accompanied by servants and wet nurses, are trying to save the infant Pyrrhus by throwing messages fastened to a javelin and to a stone to the people of Megara, gathered on the other side of the river, at left; on the right, their ennemies approaching. c.1804/15
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1804-1815 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 147 millimetres (cut or trimmed)
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Galerie du Musée Napoléon', see 1856,0308.625 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0308.1136
