print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1973,0616.39
- Title
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Object: Les Enfers
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Series: Cabinet Favereau
- Description
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Mythological scene in the underworld with Charon fighting off souls trying to get into his ferry in foreground, Hades and Persephone seated at right under a canopy made of flayed skin, torture scenes in middle ground; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; illustration on page 419 from Marolles' "Temple des Muses" (Paris, Nicolas Langlois: 1655). c.1635-1638
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1635-1638 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 283 millimetres
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Width: 190 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of fifty-eight illustrations to Marolles' "Tableaux du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655), for comment on the series see 1983,1001.12.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Tableaux du temple des muses tirez du cabinet de feu Mr Favereau, et gravez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistres de son temps pour représenter les vertus et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité, avec les descriptions, remarques et annotations (Paris, 1655)
- Acquisition date
- 1973
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1973,0616.39
