Daphnis Running toward Chloe, baron François Gérard, ca. 1798
Daphnis Running toward Chloe, ca. 1798, Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on light tan wove paper, Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris), In 1798 Gérard contributed six illustrations to the 1800 reprint of Longus’s Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé (1559). This composition, which was not ultimately engraved in the publication, is a première pensée for the climax of the novel when the two lovers finally reunite
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