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Mercury Leading a Goddess to Olympus


Project for a Festival of Chinea, 1744
Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (French, 1715–1759)

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet (trimed to platemark): 38.5 x 44.6 cm (15 3/16 x 17 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP14546
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

InscriptionsIn ink, l.l.: Le Lorrain fe. et inc.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1897, sold by Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTES:
[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.