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Cephalus and the Body of Procris
18th/19th century
Giovanni Battista Internari (Artist) Italian, 1761-1761 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Artist) Italian, 1591-1666 Louis Simon Lempereur (Artist) French, 1728-1807
Engraving printed in black on laid paper
plate: 16 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. 41.5 x 46.3 cm sheet: 27 3/4 x 21 1/8 in. 70.4 x 53.6 cm
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Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892
1991.65
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In plate, lower left: J.B. Internari del.; lower right: Louis Lempereur Sc.; lower left of the bottom margin: Quadro di Giovanni Francesco Barbieri / detto il Guercino. / dalla Galleria Reale di Dresda. / Largo piedi 8. onc. 10. alto piedi 7. onc. 4.; lower right of the bottom margin: Tableau de Jean Francois Barbieri. / dit le Guerchin. / de la Galerie Royale de Dresde. / Large 8. pieds 10. pouc. Haut 4. pieds 4. pouc.; lower right corner: 22; in black ink below Lempereur's name: b. 1725-; below Barbieri, lower right: 1591-1666. / Cento, near Bologna; lower center: Sephalus weeping near the corpse of Procris (?); lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard / 1892.; in pencil, lower center and lower right corner: 50
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Louis Simon Lempereur; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri); after Giovanni Battista Internari, Cephalus and the Body of Procris, 18th/19th century, Engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.65.
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