Orpheus and Euridice made by the atelier of Bernard Picart.

atelier of Bernard Picart (1673-1733)

Antique print, etching | Orpheus and Euridice, published 1733, 1 p.

Name: Antique print, etching | Orpheus and Euridice, published 1733, 1 p.
SKU: K80021
Price: 200.00 EUR
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From the ‘Tafereel of beschryving van den prachtigen tempel der zang-godinnen…’, also known as ‘Le Temple des Muses’ published in Amsterdam in 1733, containing histories drawn from Greek mythology, written by A.de la Barre de Beaumarchais with plates by Bernard Picart. The plates are all finely engraved and are composed with a central part dedicated to the illustration of the story and a larger one, framing the previous, inhabited with details inspired to the central plate.

Orpheus turning to Euridice while playing his lira. Whilst he exits the underworld, she is dragged back to the world of the dead. At center foreground, a cupid is pulling the dress of Orpheus. The decorative frame bears trophies with musical instruments and weapons on the sides.

At bottom verses in French, English / German and Dutch, describing the scene.

Signed on the bottom right corner of the internal plate: B. Picart dir.; and at the bottom left corner of the outer frame: B. Picart del.

[NL] Orpheus en Eurydice, een van de bekendste mythische liefdesgeschiedenissen uit de wereldliteratuur. Het verhaal werd door zowel Ovidius als Vergilius neergeschreven. Gemaakt door het atelier van Bernard Picart.

SKU: K80021

Etching and engraving on fine laid paper; internal platemark: 246 x 177 mm; external plate: 353 x 255 mm; total: 379 x 278 mm; mounted on another sheet of paper, under cardboard passepartout. Despite some traces of handling, in very good condition. LeBlanc 85-146.

€ 242,00 (€ 200,00 ex. btw)

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