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Dominique Vivant Denon

Philosophy Bringing Illumination to Ignorance

1789

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Philosophy Bringing Illumination to Ignorance

Dominique Vivant Denon

Philosophy Bringing Illumination to Ignorance

Dominique Vivant Denon

Philosophy Bringing Illumination to Ignorance

1789

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (cut within platemark): 182 × 281 mm. (7 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7526
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: In plate, at bottom left: "Denon int et St 1790"

Markings: CM: verso: Claghorn

Artist

Dominique Vivant Denon

1746–1824

French, 1747 - 1825
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PORTRAIT OF DE WAEL AND BROTHER
Dominique Vivant Denon and Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of De Wael and Brother
1766–1824
The Hunchback Bringing Supplies to Esmeralda
Alphonse Adolphe Gery-Bichard
The Hunchback Bringing Supplies to Esmeralda
19th century
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
Dominique Vivant Denon and Jacopo Tintoretto
The Adoration of the Shepherds
1766–1824
WOMEN BRINGING OFFERINGS TO A HERM OF PRIAPUS, WITH THREE SACRIFICING A DONKEY IN THE FOREGROUND
Unknown Artist, Probably Italian, Pirro Ligorio, and others
Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground
1578–1588
Two Lions and a Lioness
Dominique Vivant Denon and Martin Ferdinand Quadal
Two Lions and a Lioness
1781–1791
MINERVA DEFENDING PAINTING AGAINST ENVY AND IGNORANCE
Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others
Minerva Defending Painting Against Envy and Ignorance
1669–1679
Essai au Grayon a la Plume et a L'Estompe
Dominique Vivant Denon
Essai au Grayon a la Plume et a L'Estompe
1808
ACHILLAS BRINGING JULIUS CAESAR THE HEAD OF POMPEY
Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others
Achillas Bringing Julius Caesar the Head of Pompey
1664–1674
Head of a Man, seen from the right
Dominique Vivant Denon
Head of a Man, seen from the right
1817
THE GOOD SAMARITAN PUTTING THE TRAVELLER ON HIS DONKEY
Heinrich Aldegrever
Bringing the Traveler to the Inn
1553
Man drawing a woman with servant looking on
Dominique Vivant Denon
Man drawing a woman with servant looking on
1766–1824
HERCULES BRINGING CERBERUS FROM THE LOWER WORLD
Gabriel Salmon
Hercules Bringing Cerberus from the Lower World
1522–1532