Accession number
PML 140007, no. 235
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Published
1710
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Impression before letters, signed by Picart en point.
Impression of an engraving by Picart after Adriaen van der Werff, possibly intended as an illustration for an unidentified publication.
Impression before letters, signed by Picart en point.
Impression of an engraving by Picart after Adriaen van der Werff, possibly intended as an illustration for an unidentified publication.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 92 x 157 mm; plate mark: 101 x 159 mm; sheet: 188 x 245 mm
Summary
Providence (at left) seated before an altar, holding a staff surmounted by an "all seeing eye", her foot resting on a sphere and holding an open book at her side; three putti with offerings of grain and fruit at left, the first emptying a cornucopia at the goddess's feet; at right, a lit altar where Piety kneels to pour a libation into the flames as a winged putto overhead lowers a crown of laurels onto her head.
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