Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others
Orpheus, Leading Eurydice Out of Hell, Looks Back Upon Her, and Loses Her Forever
1729-1732
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- Artist: Bernard Picart
- Artist: Cornelis Bloemaert
- Artist: Theodor Matham
- Artist: Pierre Brebiette
- Publisher: Zacharias Châtelain
Orpheus, Leading Eurydice Out of Hell, Looks Back Upon Her, and Loses Her Forever
1729-1732
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 286 mm. (18 x 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 358 x 258 mm. (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Image: 348 x 249 mm. (13 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13032
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.
It has the same decorated frame as 1946.112.13004.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 2
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower right: "B. Picart dir."; "ORPHÉE, RAMENANT EURYDICE DES ENFERS, SE TOURNE POUR LA REGARDER, & LA PERD POUR JAMAIS. / Orpheus, leading Eurydice out of Hell, looks back upon her, and looses her forever. / Des Orpheus unglückliches zurück Schauen. / Orpheus Eurydice uyt de Helle wederbrengende verliest haar voor eeuwig."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "57"
Publisher
Zacharias Châtelain
1704–1732
Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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