Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

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

1731, published 1733

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

1731, published 1733

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

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"