Vier muzen, Julien-Léopold Boilly, after Pierre Prud'hon, 1813 - 1874

Title(s)

Vier muzen

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1970-262

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Julien-Léopold Boilly (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Pierre Prud'hon (mentioned on object)
• printer: Joseph Rose Lemercier (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Sieurin (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1813 - 1874

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 314 mm × width 394 mm

What

• voluptuousness, pleasure, 'Voluptas' ~ one of the seven gifts of the body
• Wealth, Opulence; 'Opulenza', 'Richezza' (Ripa)
• Wisdom; 'Sapienza', 'Sapienza humana', 'Sapienza vera' (Ripa)
• symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ poetry; 'Poesia' (Ripa)
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• single Muses

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 1970

Copyright

Public domain

• Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.P. Prud'hon, p. 180, cat.nr. 85
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten 1970 van het Rijksprentenkabinet