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Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Bellerophon Fights the Chimoera

1730-1732

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Bellerophon Fights the Chimoera

1730-1732

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 459 x 287 mm. (18 1/16 x 11 5/16 in.) Plate: 354 x 254 mm. (13 15/16 x 10 in.) Image: 344 x 248 mm. (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.13022
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). This print is based on plate 42, "Bellerophon".
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008

Signed: 2

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower center: "Combat de Bellerophon contre la Chimere. / Bellerophon fights the Chimoera. / Streit des Bellerophon gegen die Chimera. / Gevecht van Bellerophon tegen den Draak."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "47"

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
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Publisher

Zacharias Châtelain

1704–1732

Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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