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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Pierre took the subject of this drawing from the celebrated work the Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 bc-ad 17), which recounts the loves of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. Oreithyia, daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, so inspired the passion of the god of the north wind, Boreas, that he descended to the earth to kidnap her. Although this subject was not especially common, Ovid was a favorite source for painters during the 1700s. Pierre was influenced here by a tapestry designed by François Boucher showing the same scene.
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The Death of Harmonia
The Rape of Europa
The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet
The Flight Into Egypt
St. Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims o
The Frightened Naïad (Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à 
The Seated Nymph (Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur un
Hubert François Gravelot — The Goddess of Music Distributing
Carlo Innocenzo Carloni — The Decapitation of a Male Saint
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen — Design for a Silver Vessel wit
Gaspare Diziani — Glorification of the Widmann Family
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli — Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl 
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Design fJean-Baptiste Marie Pierre — The Rape of Europa
Michelangelo Cerruti ("Il Candelottaro") — The Martyrdom of 
Stefano Pozzi — Venus in the Forge of Vulcan (Aeneid VIII: 3
François Boucher — Vertumnus and Pomona
Carlo Alberto Baratta — Study for the Decoration of a Vault
Bon Boullogne — The Triumph of a Sea Goddess