Les noces de Tobie [print] / Gravé par B. Picart ; d'apres le dessein de Charles le Brun ...

Accession number:

PML 140007, no. 266

Author:

Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, etcher.

Published:

[Amsterdam] : [Chez la veuve de Bernard Picart], 1734

Description:

1 print : etching ; image: 201 x 279 mm; plate mark: 215 x 287 mm; sheet: 245 x 329 mm

Credit:

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes:

After Charles Le Brun.
Caption title.
Numbered "51" within the plate at upper right.
Plate 51, "Les noces de Tobie," 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).

Summary:

Print shows the marriage of Tobias and Sarah, with the bride and guests seated at table under canopy at right, and Tobias standing up to greet an old man arriving with St Raphael, and embracing another man.

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