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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jupiter Embracing A Nymph, With Sleeping Cupid
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Jupiter Embracing A Nymph, With Sleeping Cupid

Artist Andrea Schiavone (Italian, ca. 1500-1563)
CultureItalian
DateNo Date
MediumChalk, paper
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (15.9 x 14.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number50.49.14
Not on view
DescriptionBlack chalk on grey prepared paper. On the opposite side is a black chalk sketch of part of a figure. A Nymph holds Jupiter while Cupid sleeps to the right.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Thomas Couture
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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Charles-Joseph Natoire
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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2009.
Hendrick de Clerck
ca. 1600
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Frans Floris
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Paolo Farinato
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Thomas Gainsborough
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