Diana and Endymion

Artist Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1690 - 1764)

Artist After Sebastiano Conca (Italian, 1680 - 1764)

Date1729

MediumChiaroscuro woodcut

DimensionsImage: 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (45.09 x 31.12 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1005

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Exhibition History

University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1952, no cat.

William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, October 1961, no cat.

Print Exhibition No. 5: 17th- and 18th-Century European Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January-July 1974, no cat.

The Art of Book Illustration: Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 13, 1994-January 8, 1995, no cat.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 9, 2007-April 13, 2008, no cat., as Diana and Endymion.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat., as Diana and Endymion.

Gallery Label

This woodcut was part of a two-volume album of prints made after the finest paintings and drawings in French 18th-century private collections. The choice of the album's contents was made by the celebrated French connoisseur and collector Pierre Crozat. According to the inscription below, the woodcut follows a drawing by Sebastiano Conca, an artist who worked in Rome and Naples in the 18th century. The theme represents the love of Diana, the moon goddess, for the handsome shepherd Endymion, who slept eternally, thus remaining forever young.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by October 25, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Georg Kaspar Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, vol. 17, Sole, G.G.—Suruge, L. (Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, 1847), no. 23, p. 556, as Diana und Endymion, nach der Zeichnung von S. Conca von N. le Sueur und Mlle. Bassporte in Helldunkel ausgeführt, gr. fol.

Charles Le Blanc, Manuel de l’amateur d’estampes, vol. 2, Chaufourier-Melar (Paris: Émile Bouillon, 1854-1890), no. 21, p. 543, as Diane et Endymion: Seb. Conca. Cabinet Crozat.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 299, (repro.), as Diane and Endymion.

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