Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 65-68 (Sale info: $500.00 each).
They were obtained of the Medicis family, and are not only remarkable as specimens of the painter's magic art, but for the curious effects they exhibit in consequence of the skill with which the painter has taken advantage of the veins of the marble to represent sky, water, clouds, &c. The illusion being perfect. In one, the moon seems to be emerging from a cloud, which is only a white vein in the marble. Notwithstanding that these pictures have become slightly injured, very great praise has been bestowed on them, by the best judges. $500 each. [p. 8; full entry reads: "Four superb paintings on marble, the first representing the Rape of Europa, the second Venus and a Satyr, the third, the same subject again, and the fourth the Bathing of Venus."]
Synopsis of a Valuable Collection of Old Italian Paintings, and other rare Articles of Fine Arts in the possession of Mr. John Clark, now exhibiting at No. 281 Broadway, opposite the Washington Hotel, admittance 25 cents. New York: Scatcherd & Adams, Printers, No. 38 Gold Street. 1839.
