Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others
Hell
1729-1732
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- Artist: Bernard Picart
- Artist: Cornelis Bloemaert
- Artist: Theodor Matham
- Artist: Pierre Brebiette
- Publisher: Zacharias Châtelain
Hell
1729-1732
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 286 mm. (18 x 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 351 x 254 mm. (13 13/16 x 10 in.)
Image: 342 x 250 mm. (13 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13033
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).
In Bloemaert's print there is no indication that the source is one of Pierre Brebiette's drawings (as it happens with other prints from the series) but according to Hollstein that is the case. See Hollstein, C. BLOEMAERT 90-148.
In Bloemaert's print there is no indication that the source is one of Pierre Brebiette's paintings (as it happens with other prints from the series) but according to Hollstein that is the case. See Hollstein, C. BLOEMAERT 90-148.
It has the same decorated frame as 1946.112.13036.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower left: "B. Picart direx."; in plate, lower center: "LES ENFERS. / Hell. / Die Hell. / De Helle."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1730."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "58"
Publisher
Zacharias Châtelain
1704–1732
Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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