Prometheus chained, two pendentives and an egyptian Saint Marie, bound in Monuments des Arts du Dessin, volume 3, plate 234
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 15/16 × 13 7/16 in. (53.2 × 34.2 cm) 20 7/8 x 14 3/16 x 1 15/16 in. (53 x 36 x 5 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1994.220(3.81)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 1829 lithograph, Plate 234 from Volume 3 of *Monuments des Arts du Dessin*, captures the dramatic mythological scene of Prometheus chained alongside two architectural pendentives and an Egyptian figure identified as Saint Marie. Published under the direction of Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, the influential Napoleonic-era collector and Louvre administrator, the volume served as an important early nineteenth-century survey of master drawings. The plate reproduces works associated with artists such as Jusepe de Ribera and Alonso Cano, whose intense naturalism and emotional expressiveness mad...
About the Artist
Amaury Duval|Brunet|Jules Dagneau|Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)|Alonso Cano|baron Dominique Vivant Denon (French|French| |Spanish|Spanish|French) · 1760 |1700 | |1591 |1601 |1747 –1838 |1800 | |1652 |1667 |1825
French, 1760–1838|French, active 18th century| |Spanish, Játiva 1591–1652 Naples|Spanish, Granada 1601–1667 Granada|French, Givry 1747–1825 Paris