Bernard Picart
Meleager Presents the Boar’s Head to Atalanta
1732
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 456 x 284 mm. (17 15/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Plate: 355 x 255 mm. (14 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 344 x 243 mm. (13 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13001
This is one of the few plates in the book that is not based on Cornelis Bloemaert's engravings for Michel de Marolles' "Tableau du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655).
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 2
Inscribed: recto, in plate, lower center: "Meleagre présente à Atalante la hure du sanglier de Calydon. / Meleager presents the Boar's head to Atalanta. / Meleager bietet Atalante den wilden-schweins-Kopf von Calydonien an. / Meleager biedt Atalante het wilde Swyns-hooft van Calydonien aan"; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite, "26"
