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Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto

After Pietro Liberi Italian
ca. 1764
Not on view
This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. Of the sixteen, ten were based on Venetian models, including this print inspired by a painting by the seventeenth-century artist Pietro Liberi (Italian, 1605/14-1687). Liberi's canvas, today in the Royal Collection Trust (RCIN 405705) is more closely cropped; Fragonard added space above and below the figures to create a more airy composition.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto
  • Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
  • Artist: After Pietro Liberi (Italian, 1605–1687)
  • Date: ca. 1764
  • Medium: Etching, first state of two
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (16.1 x 11 cm)
    Image: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in. (14.9 × 10.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.283
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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