Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

The Nymph Echo Changed into Sound

1729-1732

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The Nymph Echo Changed into Sound

1729-1732

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 456 x 284 mm. (17 15/16 x 11 3/16 in.) Plate: 350 x 253 mm. (13 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.) Image: 342 x 242 mm. (13 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1946.112.13016

This publication is based on Michel de Marolles' "Tableau du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655), with fifty-nine engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert (and Theodor Matham etching the backgrounds) and one (showing Salmacis) by Poilly; after drawings by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and Pierre Brebiette illustrating the art collection of Jacques Favereau (1590-1675). This print is based on plate 37, "Echo". The design is not inverted.

BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008

Signed: 2

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower left: "B. Picart dir."; in plate, lower center: "La nymphe Echo changé en voix. / The Nymph Echo changed into Sound. / Die Nymphe Echo in einem Wieder Schall verändert. / De Nymphe Echo in een Stemme verandert."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "42"