print
- Museum number
- 1990,1006.85
- Title
- Object: Ab Joue, per Sylvas errans, comprissa Calisto
- Description
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Jupiter and Callisto making love in a forest. c.1547/50
Etching
- Production date
- 1547-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 129 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate 2 from a set of twelve representing the story of Callisto, etched by Davent after Thiry shortly after 1547.
Also see 'École de Fontainebleau', Paris 1972, cat. No.394 and 'Fontainebleau et l'estampe en France au XVIe siècle, iconographie et contradictions', Nemours1985, cat. No.63.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by Mrs Lore Ostwald of Swarthmore Pennsylvania
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1990,1006.85