Neptunus en Ceres, Bernard Picart (workshop of), after Bernard Picart, 1708

Title(s)

Neptunus en Ceres

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-51.280

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 68

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Neptunus, in de gedaante van een hengst, verleidt Ceres. Rechts op de achtergrond twee tritons bij de wagen van Neptunus. In de marge een onderschrift in het Frans.

Artist

• print maker: Bernard Picart (workshop of)
• after drawing by: Bernard Picart (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Bernard Picart (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Gaspard Duchange (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Paris
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Paris

Dating

1708

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 135 mm × width 148 mm

What

• love-affairs of Neptune: first series
• Neptune in the shape of a stallion, and Ceres in the shape of a mare; from their union Arion is born (+ variant)

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 3, p. 192, cat.nr. 68