Rape of Europa

17th century

Italian , Artist After Paolo Veronese , Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Rape of Europa

Artwork Date 17th century

Makers (Artist) Italian After Paolo Veronese (Artist) Italian, 1528-1588

Medium Pen and ocher ink with ocher wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared for transfer with black chalk

Dimensions Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/4 inches (26 × 38.7 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.155

Markings

Inscriptions 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

Marks 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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Published References

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.