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Biblis changée en fontaine [print] / inventé et gravé par B. Picart.

Accession number
PML 140007, no. 159
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], 1732.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from Dimier.
Plate numbered "57" at upper right.
Plate 57, "Biblis changée en fontaine", from the published set of 78 numbered prints by Bernard Picart after works by various artists, issued posthumously with the title: Impostures innocentes, ou recueil d'estampes d'apres divers peintres illustres, tels que Rafael, Le Guide, Carlo Maratti, Le Poussin, Rembrandt, &c., gravées à leur imitation, & selon le gout particular de chacun d'eux, & accompagnées d'un Discours sur les préjugés de certain curieux touchant la gravure / par Bernard Picart, dessinateur et gravure: avec son Eloge historique et le Catalogue de ses ouvrages (Amsterdam : Chez la veuve de Bernard Picart, 1734).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 177 x 266 mm; plate mark: 198 x 272 mm; sheet: 235 x 315 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Byblis turned into a spring: river landscape with Caunus repelling his sister Byblis, who is trying to embrace him; on the right, Cupid flying away.
Classification
Department