# The Rape of Proserpine [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ABBATE, Niccolò dell']() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 196 x 220 cm ## Commentary The Rape of Proserpine c. 1570 Oil on canvas, 196 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In this painting - which may belong to a series of landscapes painted in 1570 for the Cabinet du Roi in the Château de Fontainebleau - the artist applies the formula of a vast landscape animated by small, graceful figures. He takes as his source works by Joachim Patenier. ## Related artworks - [Chimney breast]() - [Chimney breast]() - [Death of Eurydice]() - [Decoration \(detail\)]() - [Decoration]() - [Man with Parrot]() - [Meeting of Charles V and the Bey of Tunis]() - [Moses Rescued from the Nile]() - [Orlando Furioso scenes \(detail\)]() - [Orlando Furioso scenes \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman with a Falcon]() - [Stag Hunt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()