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Mythological scene with Deucalion and Pyrrha seated on a bull trying to escape a flood, while others attempt to rescue themselves by hanging on to the bull or climbing in trees, Zeus with an eagle seated on clouds in top left while stopping a winged genius creating rain; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; from an album containing sixty engravings trimmed and pasted on sheets; illustration on page 19 from Marolles' "Temple des Muses" (Paris, Nicolas Langlois: 1655). c.1635-1638Etching and engraving
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