Leto verandert de boeren in kikkers, Claude DuBosc, after Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, 1714

Title(s)

Leto verandert de boeren in kikkers
Latone (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1905-2842

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 3
• LeBlanc 14

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Claude DuBosc (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Jean Baptiste Jouvenet (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Gaspard Duchange (mentioned on object)
• François Gacon (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris

Dating

1714

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving / etching

Measurements

height 323 mm × width 238 mm

What

• Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)

Acquisition

purchase 1905

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 7, p. 360, cat.nr. 3
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 2, p. 148, cat.nr. 14