Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff

modeled: ca. 1840; first cast: 1846

68.6 cm 52.1 cm 32.4 cm

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This subject is taken from Orlando Furioso, an epic poem set in the 9th century written by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. Roger, a knight at the court of King Charlemagne, has rescued the princess of Cathay, who had been chained to a rock on the Isle of Tears and was about to be de...

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Hector Brame (?); William T. Walters, Baltimore, April 24, 1884, by purchase [commissioned by George A. Lucas for William T. Walters; maybe called: no. 6, ""Angélique et Roger montés sur l'Hippogriffe""]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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