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Paris and Oenone

Paris and Oenone

(Italian, worked in Italy, England, and Portugal, 1728–1815)
(Swiss, 1741–1807)
1781
Medium/TechniqueStipple engraving, hand-colored
Credit LineGift of Deborah B. Brown in memory of Aida and Boris Mirski
Accession number2014.2395
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsBelow image, in plate: PARIS AND OENONE / When Paris lives not to Oenone true / Back Xanthus' streams shall to their fountains flow / Ovid Epist. V
ProvenanceBy about 1974, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA; 1996, by inheritance to Deborah Brown, Boston; 2014, year-end gift of Brown to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)