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Orrilo Retrieves His Own Head, from Orlando Furioso

Date

ca. 1780

Creator

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

This is one of 160 drawings Fragonard produced to illustrate the sixteenth-century author Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso. It depicts canto 15, verse 71, the battle among Aquilante, Grifone, and Orrilo. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)

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This is one of 160 drawings Fragonard produced to illustrate the sixteenth-century author Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso. It depicts canto 15, verse 71, the battle among Aquilante, Grifone, and Orrilo. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732 - 1806)
ca. 1780
Drawings
Black chalk and brown wash on laid paper
1991.053
epic poems
Not on view, please request access
17 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (44.13 x 29.53 cm)
Gift of John D. Reilly, ND '63, '64

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