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Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders

1730-1732

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Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders

Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders

1730-1732

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 458 x 286 mm. (18 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.) Plate: 352 x 256 mm. (13 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.) Image: 344 x 247 mm. (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.13021
This publication is based on Michel de Marolles' "Tableau du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655), with fifty-nine engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert (and Theodor Matham etching the backgrounds) and one (showing Salmacis) by Poilly; after drawings by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and Pierre Brebiette illustrating the art collection of Jacques Favereau (1590-1675).
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008

Malcolm Daniel, The Baltimore Museum of Art traveling exhibition, "Mythprints," 1981-82, circulated to Essex Community College; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson; St. John's College, Annapolis; Salisbury State College; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mythprints," exhibition brochure, 1981-82, cat. 10.

Signed: 2

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower center: "ATLAS PORTE LE CIEL SUR SES ÉPAULES. / Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders. / Altas trägt den Himmel auf seine Schultern / Atlas draagt den Hemel op syne Schouders."; in plate, at bottom left> "B. Picart del. 1731"; at bottom right, in graphite: "46"

Artist

Bernard Picart

1672–1732

French, 1673-1733
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Artist

Cornelis Bloemaert

2000–1691

Dutch, c. 1603-1692
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Artist

Theodor Matham

1604–1675

Dutch, 1605/6-1676
Meet Theodor Matham

Artist

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck

1595–1674

Flemish, 1596 - 1675
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Publisher

Zacharias Châtelain

1704–1732

Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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