Bernard Picart
Meleager Presents the Boar’s Head to Atalanta
1732
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 456 x 284 mm. (17 15/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Plate: 355 x 255 mm. (14 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 344 x 243 mm. (13 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13001
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 2
Inscribed: recto, in plate, lower center: "Meleagre présente à Atalante la hure du sanglier de Calydon. / Meleager presents the Boar's head to Atalanta. / Meleager bietet Atalante den wilden-schweins-Kopf von Calydonien an. / Meleager biedt Atalante het wilde Swyns-hooft van Calydonien aan"; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite, "26"
