Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Bellerophon Fights the Chimoera

1730

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Bellerophon Fights the Chimoera

1730

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.)

Portfolio/Series From the book "Tafereel, Of Beschryving van den prachtigen Tempel der Zang-Godinnen," (Amsterdam: Chatelain, 1733) by Antoine La Barre de Beaumarchais (d. 1757)

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"