An 18th-century French drawing in the Baillieu Library

The most recent issue of University of Melbourne Collections magazine includes a detailed contribution by Marguerite Brown (recent graduate, Master of Art Curatorship) on a red chalk drawing of Prometheus being attacked by an eagle from the Baillieu Library’s Print Collection.[1]

Previously attributed to the Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815), Marguerite’s research has overturned this assessment in favour of the French sculptor René-Michel Slodtz (1705–1764). Her full analysis can be read on Marguerite’s blog Visual Pursuits:

http://visualpursuits.org/2014/06/25/an-18th-century-french-drawing-in-the-baillieu-library/

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[1] Marguerite Brown, ‘An 18th-century French drawing in the Baillieu Library’. University of Melbourne Collections, issue 14 (June 2014): 46–50.