Accession number
PML 140007, no. 165
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Paris?], 1707
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption directly below image: In multitudine separavit eos, et immutavit vias eorum. Eclesiasti. c. 33. v. 11.
Also issued with the title: La Vérité recherchée par les philosophes.
Independent impression of a thesis engraving for Albin Brillon de Joüy's doctoral thesis "Conclusiones philosophicae" (Paris : Ex typographiâ Jacobi Quillau, 1707), entitled "La Vérité recherchée par les philosophes," where it appears as a headpiece illustration for a single sheet of engraved text providing a description of the scene, and announcing the date of the thesis: Gravée pour une thèse de Philosophie soutenue par Monsieur Brillon de Joüy le 25 juillet 1707.
Also issued with the title: La Vérité recherchée par les philosophes.
Independent impression of a thesis engraving for Albin Brillon de Joüy's doctoral thesis "Conclusiones philosophicae" (Paris : Ex typographiâ Jacobi Quillau, 1707), entitled "La Vérité recherchée par les philosophes," where it appears as a headpiece illustration for a single sheet of engraved text providing a description of the scene, and announcing the date of the thesis: Gravée pour une thèse de Philosophie soutenue par Monsieur Brillon de Joüy le 25 juillet 1707.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 94 x 154 mm; plate mark: 104 x 154 mm; sheet: 179 x 256 mm
Summary
The philosophers seeking Truth, thesis engraving: Philosophy, personified by woman crowned with stars and holding sceptre and Ouroboros, shows Truth to a group of philosophers led by Descartes; Truth, personified by a naked woman holding a book, a palm leaf and the sun, is surrounded by Time and by Minerva, who is vanquishing Ignorance; several scientific instruments lie on the ground. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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