Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others
Ulysses and His Companions Avoid the Charms of the Sirens
1730-1732
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- Artist: Bernard Picart
- Artist: Cornelis Bloemaert
- Artist: Theodor Matham
- Artist: Pierre Brebiette
- Publisher: Zacharias Châtelain
Ulysses and His Companions Avoid the Charms of the Sirens
1730-1732
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 288 mm. (18 x 11 5/16 in.)
Plate: 353 x 255 mm. (13 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Image: 343 x 243 mm. (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13012
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 32, "Les Syrenes". See Holstein, BLOEMAERT 90-148 for the attribution of the drawing to Pierre Brebiette.
It has the same decorated frame as 1946.112.13029.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 2
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower left: "B. Picart dir."; in plate, lower center: "ULYSSE & SES COMPAGNONS ÉVITENT LES PIEGES DES SIRENES. / Ulysses and his Companions avoid the charms of the Sirens. / Ulysses und seine gesellen antgehen den Fall-striken der Syrenen. / Ulysses en syne Makkers myden de laagen der Sirenes."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731."
Publisher
Zacharias Châtelain
1704–1732
Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733
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