Plate Two: Satyr Carrying a Nymph on His Back and Led by a Youth | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R206NA
People: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title: Plate Two: Satyr Carrying a Nymph on His Back and Led by a Youth
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Bacchanals
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/238365

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 14.8 x 21.5 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Royal Print Cabinet, Berlin, Exchange for two prints, 1896.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Bau. 7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Royal Print Cabinet, Berlin
Object Number: R206NA
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), pp. 154-157, cat. 69, repr. on p. 156 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 103, p. 171 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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