print;
book-illustration;
album
- Museum number
- 1983,1001.12.40
- Title
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Object: Orphée
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Series: Cabinet Favereau
- Description
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Mythological scene in the underworld with Orpheus about to enter the upper world at right, playing the violin and looking back over his shoulder towards Eurydice, unfortunately his wife is still in the underworld at left and disappears again, Cupid holding Orpheus clothes at centre; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; from an album containing sixty engravings trimmed and pasted on sheets; illustration on page 411 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: 274 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 180 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 and the album 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
- 1983
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,1001.12.40