Phrosine and Mélidore

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Phrosine and Mélidore

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823)

Date
1797
Medium
Etching, engraving, stipple, and roulette in black on ivory wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Prud’hon created this print as an illustration for a 1797 edition of Gentil Bernard’s sensual and tragic poem of the same name. The young Phrosine, at right, falls in love with Mélidore, but her jealous brothers separate the two and banish Mélidore to a life as a hermit on a nearby island. Desperate to see her beloved, Phrosine swims across the channel at night, and collapses, naked, into her lover’s arms.

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