Title(s)

Twee terracotta sculpturen van Europa die wordt opgetild door een stier en een Amazone

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1633-9

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘IX.’
• number: ‘1. 2.’

Artist

• photographer: Marcel Gustave Laverdet (mentioned on object)
• Alphonse-Louis Poitevin (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

c. 1852 - in or before 1857

Material

• paper

Technique

photolithography

Measurements

height 252 mm × width 373 mm

What

• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (+ clay, sand, etc. ~ arts)
• Jupiter, usually in the shape of a white bull, abducts Europa and carries her across the water
• (story of) the Amazons

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Choix de terres cuites antiques du cabinet de M. le vicomte Hte. de Janzé / photogr. par Laverdet et reportées sur pierre lithographique par Poitevin; texte explicatif par J. de Witte (RP-F-2001-7-1633)