Hermaphroditus omhelsd door Salmacis, Jean Daullé, after Jean-François de Troy, 1762

Title(s)

Hermaphroditus omhelsd door Salmacis
Salmacis et Hermaphrodite. (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-63.770

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 169

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jean Daullé (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Jean-François de Troy (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jean Daullé (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris

Dating

1762

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 375 mm × width 481 mm

What

• landscapes
• Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373)
• story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 6, p. 131, cat.nr. 169