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Apollo and Daphne, after Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble Group in the Galleria Borghese, Rome
Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1736
Liotard has here copied another famous marble sculpture. As well as providing a landscape and stormy sky, he has added the river god Peneus, who changed the nymph into a laurel tree to prevent her being ravished by Apollo. Liotard’s attempts to animate marble sculptures are an idiosyncratic contribution to the paragone, the long-running debate as to the relative superiority of painting and sculpture.
- Artwork typedrawing, pastel
- Object numberSK-A-1195
- Dimensionsheight 66.2 cm x width 51.2 cm, weight 8.6 kg
- Physical characteristicspastel on paper