Perseus and Andromeda, François-Philippe Charpentier, 1762
François Philippe CharpentierFrankrig, 1734–1817

Perseus and Andromeda

1762 · Print · 36.2 × 49.21 cm

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A 1762 advertisement in a Paris paper announced, “Monsieurs Charpentier and Floding, authors of a new manner of engraving which imitates wash perfectly, are releasing six prints in this taste.” Perseus and Andromeda was among the first aquatints they published. It reproduces a drawing by Carle Vanloo, First Painter to the King (Premier Peintre du Roi). To make his aquatints, Charpentier reportedly built a special machine that was largely funded by a Swedish drawing collector, Count Carl Gustav Tessin.

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