Rijksmuseum

Apollo and Daphne, after Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble Group in the Galleria Borghese, Rome

Date

1736

Medium

paper

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Liotard has here copied another famous marble sculpture. As well as providing a landscape and stormy sky, he has added the river god Peneus, who changed the nymph into a laurel tree to prevent her being ravished by Apollo. Liotard’s attempts to animate marble sculptures are an idiosyncratic contribution to the paragone, the long-running debate as to the relative superiority of painting and sculpture.

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