drawing
- Museum number
- 1936,0509.62
- Description
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'Rape of Psyche' after painting by Giovanni Battista or Domenico Parodi formerly in the Palazzo Marcellino Durazzo, Genoa, one of 71 drawings made for the Abbé de Saint-Non in 1761 on a journey from Naples to France. 1761
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 285 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For commentary on this group of black chalk Fragonard drawing see 1936,0509.1.
The Parodi painting after which this is copies has not been located.
Lit.: E. Senior, 'Drawings made in Italy by Fragonard', "Old Master Drawings", XI, 1936, pp.5-9; A. Ananoff, 'L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné', Paris, 1968, III, no. 1826, p. 184; P. Rosenberg and B. Brejon De Lavergnée, 'Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761', Rome, 1986, no. 327, p. 415; L. Leoncini (ed), 'Da Tintoretto a Rubens: Capolavori della Collezione Durazzo', exh cat, Genoa, Palazzo Reale, 2004, no. 50
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2004 July-Oct, Genoa, Museo di Palazzo Reale, 'Da Tintoretto a Rubens: Capolavori della collezione Durazzo', no. 50
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- Inherited by Mrs Whatley from the Meyrick family.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,0509.62
