Bernard Picart and Zacharias Châtelain
The Temple of the Muses
1731
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Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 454 x 289 mm. (17 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Image: 371 x 288 mm. (14 5/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12976
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).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at center: "De / Tempel / der / Zang-Godinnen. / T'Amsterdam, / By Z: Chatelain."; in plate, lower left of image: "B. Picart invenit 1732." on sheet, at bottom, in graphite: "Frontispiece of other work of van de "Zabel Oudhad" - B. Picart re / Amsterdam - Zacharias Chatelain / MDCCXXXIII - 1733"; in sheet, at bottom right, in graphite: "1"; on sheet, at bottom right, in graphite: "A"
Markings: CM: Claghorn: WM: Fleur-de-lis
Publisher
Zacharias Châtelain
1704–1732
Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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