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Un massacre [print] / Gravé par B. Picart ; d'aprés le dessein de Cangiage.

Accession number
PML 140007, no. 258
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, etcher.
Published
[Amsterdam] : [Chez la veuve de Bernard Picart], 1734
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
After a preparatory drawing by Cambiaso for his "The return of Odysseus."
Title from printed table of contents for "Impostures innocentes."
Numbered "34" within the plate at upper right.
Plate 34, "Un Massacre", 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: 194 x 350 mm; plate mark: 208 x 358 mm; sheet: 230 x 383 mm
Summary
Print shows armed figures, one bearing a bow, entering a classical archway and pursuing and massacring figures in the foreground; apparently a preliminary study, with the figures all notably endowed with featureless, block-like heads.
Classification
Department