print
- Museum number
- 1935,0520.44
- Title
- Object: L'enlèvement des Sabines
- Description
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The rape of the Sabines, after Luca Giordano. 1762
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1762
- Dimensions
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Height: 462 millimetres
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Width: 564 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Print advertised in 'Mercure', April 1762. Part of a set of four plates representing mythological subjects and reproducing paintings by Luca Giordano (The rape of Europa, 1761; the Rape of the Sabines, 1762, the Judgement of Paris, c.1763, and Acis and Galatea, 1763). The plates were shown at the Salon, 1763, where they secured him a position as 'agréé'.
According to the announcement made in the Mercure for the publication of 'Acis et Galatée', the paintings belonged to a M.Colins, a painter living at Quai de la Mégisserie in Paris, and were for sale.
The BM keeps a complete edition of the set (1935,0520.42 to 45).
The Sabines is after a painting now in Genoa, acquired by Costantino Balbi in 1709 (Ferrari-Scavezzi A.273).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0520.44
