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Artists›Nicolas Le Sueur

Nicolas Le Sueur

French, 1691–1764

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (5)

The Rape of Europa, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

1742 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in green and brown on ivory laid paper

Image: 42.5 × 28 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.); sheet: 54 × 39.5 cm (21 5/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Diana and Endymion

1724 · chiaroscuro woodcut printed in green and black on laid paper

image: 44.4 × 31.4 cm (17 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 54.9 × 38.4 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Saint Philip Neri, kneeling at left, with the Virgin and child appearing at upper right

1724 · Etching and aquatint in blue-gray

Plate: 15 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (38.5 × 25.6 cm) Sheet: 21 in. × 15 1/4 in. (53.3 × 38.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Assumption of the Virgin; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Giuseppe Passeri

1724 · Aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut printed in green and brown over etching

Sheet: 21 in. × 15 1/4 in. (53.3 × 38.8 cm) Plate: 11 11/16 × 9 3/8 in. (29.7 × 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The invention of the cross; three men lifting a cross from a trench; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pinturicchio

1724 · Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock

Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 1/16 in. (53.1 × 38.3 cm) Plate: 16 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (41 × 31.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Rape of Europa, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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