Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto

Jean Honoré Fragonard French
 After Pietro Liberi Italian

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This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. Of the sixteen, ten were based on Venetian models, including this print inspired by a painting by the seventeenth-century artist Pietro Liberi (Italian, 1605/14-1687). Liberi's canvas, today in the Royal Collection Trust (RCIN 405705) is more closely cropped; Fragonard added space above and below the figures to create a more airy composition.

Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching, first state of two

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