The Abduction of Europa
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
c. 1788
Medium
Etching on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13.5 × 18 cm (5 3/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 18 × 27 cm (7 1/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55591
About the Artist
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...