About the Artwork
Rape of Europa
17th century
(Artist) Italian Paolo Veronese (Artist) Italian, 1528-1588
Pen and ocher ink with ocher wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared for transfer with black chalk
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/4 inches (26 × 38.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.155
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in black chalk, lower right corner: 1547 Inscribed, in pen and tannish gold ink, lower left center: Paul Veronese Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: Sir T. Lawrence Coll. Inscribed, in pen and tannish gold ink, lower left center, on mat: Veronese. Paolo Caliari | 1528 - 1588 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, recto of mat: I. | P. VER 2 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, recto of mat: 43 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left, verso of mat: 5
Stamp, in black, verso, lower right corner: Randall Davies
Provenance
possibly Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, England). E. Parsons & Sons (London, England). R.H. Randall Davies (London, England). 1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 297, no. A44.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 498, cat. 394 (ill.).
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Italian; after Paolo Veronese, Rape of Europa, 17th century, pen and ocher ink with ocher wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared for transfer with black chalk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.155.
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