Accession number
PML 140007, no. 209
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam] : [François L'Honoré], [1727]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Five lines of caption text, beginning: Ce tableau représente le fameux Festinque Quirinus, autrement Romulus, fit aux Dieux & aux Césars ...
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration in: Les Césars de l'Empereur Julien, traduits du grec par feu M. le baron de Spanheim (Amsterdam: François L'Honoré, 1728).
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration in: Les Césars de l'Empereur Julien, traduits du grec par feu M. le baron de Spanheim (Amsterdam: François L'Honoré, 1728).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 216 x 163 mm; plate mark: 244 x 174 mm; sheet: 394 x 265 mm
Summary
Print shows the banquet given by Romulus for the gods; in the upper part, the banquet, set in heavens, with Romulus standing before Jupiter and interceding for his successors, who are standing below: Caesar, Augustus, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius at right, and Constantine at left; Hercules is seated at left, opposite Romulus, and is pointing at Alexander the Great, who is listening to Caesar with an irritated look upon his face.
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