A man tempted by Cupid to rape a sleeping woman renounces the act out of respect. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.

[Paris] : [De l'Imprimerie Royale], [1742]

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 34.7 x 33.6 cm

Le respect. D'après tableau de Paul Veronése, qui est dans le Cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. Peint sur toile haut de 6. pieds, large de 5. pieds gravé par Louis Desplaces.

Marcel Roux et al., Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1951, tome VII, p. 95, no. 82

Cecil Gould, The sixteenth-century Itailan schools, London: The National Gallery, 1975, pp. 326-330

Wellcome Collection 3046785i

After one of four paintings by Veronese, formerly in the collection of Rudolf II in Prague, subsequently in the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome, in the Orleans collection in the Palais Royal, Paris, at the time of this print, and acquired by 1818 by the Earl of Darnley, from whom acquired in 1890-1891 by the National Gallery, London, where they are called as a group "Allegories of love I-IV" (Gould loc. cit.)

Commissioned and issued as part of the "Recueil Crozat", 2 vols., 1729 and 1742, of which volume I bears a title page lettered: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, dans le cabinet du Roy, dans celuy de monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, & dans d'autres cabinets, A Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, MDCCXXIX