Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Pygmalion Is Inamored with a Statue He Had Made, and Venus at His Prayer Transforms into a Woman

1730

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Pygmalion Is Inamored with a Statue He Had Made, and Venus at His Prayer Transforms into a Woman

1730

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 283 mm. (18 x 11 1/8 in.) Plate: 351 x 253 mm. (13 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.) Image: 343 x 242 mm. (13 1/2 x 9 1/2 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 1946.112.12998

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 18, "Pygmalion"

BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008

Signed: 2

Inscribed: Recto, in plate, lower center: "Pygmalion, amoureux d'une statue qu'il a faite, obtient de / Venus qu'elle soit changée en femme, & l'espouse. // Pygmalion is inamored with a Statue he had made, and Venus at / his Prayer Transforms into a Woman. // Das Bild von Pygmalion durch Venus in eine Frau verändert. // Pygmalions Beeldt door Venus in eene Vrouwe verandert."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731"; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "23"