Accession number
PML 140007, no. 268
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 Charles Le Brun.
Title from printed table of contents for "Impostures innocentes."
Numbered "54" within the plate at upper right.
Plate 54, "Une autre pareille," (preceded by plate 53 "Une Bacchanale") 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).
Title from printed table of contents for "Impostures innocentes."
Numbered "54" within the plate at upper right.
Plate 54, "Une autre pareille," (preceded by plate 53 "Une Bacchanale") 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: 112 x 352 mm; plate mark: 126 x 357 mm; sheet: 165 x 392 mm
Summary
Print shows a Bacchanalian revel, after La Fage, with figures in frieze-like composition, at left a man helping a satyr to get up, Silenus, supported by a man, riding a donkey whilst drinking from a sponge held above his head by another companion, at right figures dancing beside a Herm.
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