Amours de Phrosine et Mélidore
Primary
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
(Cluny, France, 1758–Paris, France, 1823)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1797
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in. (29.9 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1991.117
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1991.117
On View
Not on viewThe passion of Phrosine and Mélidore was described by Gentil Bernard (1710-75), a minor poet during the reign of Louis XV. Prud'hon's engraving illustrates the climactic moment in which the lovers, after being separated by the jealousy of Phrosine's brother and Mélidore's heartbroken retreat to an island, are reunited when she swims to him and collapses in his embrace.
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