print
- Museum number
- 1891,0511.392
- Title
- Series: Vie et oeuvres des peintres les plus célèbres de toutes les écoles
- Description
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Plate number 15, the element of Earth: the ancient earth goddess Berecynthia crowned and holding a globe riding in a lion-drawn chariot with Flora, Ceres and Bacchus, surrounding them cupids carry out many tasks, a circular composition, outline only. c.1805-1825
Etching
- Production date
- 1805-1825 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 235 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For discussion of the painting and series to which it belongs now in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin see C. Puglesi, 'Francesco Albani', London and New Haven, 1999, cat.no.60iv.
See 1891,0511.363 for comment on series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0511.392