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Period: 16th century (4567)

Type: ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Italian (1743)

Subjects: Hades (Greek deity)  (2) | Proserpina (Roman deity) (12)

Keywords
chariots (ancient vehicles) (46) | goddesses (272) | gods (356) | kidnappings (3) | mythology (1369) | rapes (17)

Rape of Proserpina

16th century

Penni, Luca    more

Pen and ink (brown-grey), watercolour (brown), bodycolour (white) on paper (ruled in graphite)

height: 25.7 cm; width: 33.8 cm (slightly irregular)

Inscription
Signed, bodycolour (white), lower right, recto, Luc / Pen.

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.832

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London