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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R4547
People
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French (Abbeville 1731 - 1797 Abbeville)
After Luca Giordano, Italian (Naples 1634 - 1705 Naples)
Title
The Rape of Europa
Other Titles
Original Language Title: L'enlevèment d'Europe
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/240000

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 39 × 54 cm (15 3/8 × 21 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 41.7 × 55 cm (16 7/16 × 21 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. II, no. 36, p. 220; LeBlanc 23; Andresen 7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R4547
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • William McAllister Johnson, The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2016), repr. as fig. 50 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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