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Phrosine and Mélidore, 1797. Etching, engraving, stipple, and roulette in black on ivory wove paper.
Etching, engraving, stipple, and roulette in black on ivory wove paper · Image: 21.2 × 14.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Phrosine and Mélidore
- Artist
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823) finished with engraving by Barthélemy Roger (French, 1767-1841)
- Date
- 1797
- Medium
- Etching, engraving, stipple, and roulette in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.2 × 14.5 cm (8 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Plate: 34.3 × 25.1 cm (13 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 21.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1758–1823
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.