Prometheus geketend, Pierre Chenu, 1728 - 1760

Title(s)

Prometheus geketend
Le suplice de Promethée (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1952-761

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 30
• LeBlanc 6-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Pierre Chenu (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Pierre Chenu (mentioned on object)
• Pierre Chenu (mentioned on object)
• Villeneuve (comte de Vence) , Claude-Alexander de (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
after painting by: Rome
publisher: Paris
France
France

Dating

1728 - 1760

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 416 mm × width 280 mm

What

• punishment of Prometheus; he is chained to a rock, usually by Vulcan and/or Mercury

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1952

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 4, p. 287, cat.nr. 30
• 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. 7, cat.nr. 6