Art, literature & history
Phrosine and Melidore
1796
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, stipple, roulette, and engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 21 x 14.5 cm (8 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 29.3 x 20.8 cm (11 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.104.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Phrosine and Melidore. Pierre Paul Prud'hon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Paul_Prud%27hon,_Phrosine_and_Melidore,_1796,_NGA_62698.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Phrosine and Melidore — Pierre Paul Prud'hon. 1796.
Medium: etching, stipple, roulette, and engraving on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21 x 14.5 cm (8 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 29.3 x 20.8 cm (11 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.104.2. Gift of Dr. Ruth B. Benedict.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.