Lampes, plate 50 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"

After Jean Barbault French
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
1770
Not on view
Plate 50, Plate with two oil lamps, each shown with a medallion corresponding to the workshop signature on the lamp's base.The lamp at right has a profile bust portrait of the god Pan. The lamp at left has an image of a 'fête champêtre'- a naked man at left, possibly a representation of the god, Bacchus,with a naked woman at right, both in bed with a small tiger. This is the seventh in a series of twelve views of oil lamps, with the eigth image included below on the same page. These two images appear facing page 39, which contains a description of the lamps.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lampes, plate 50 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
  • Series/Portfolio: Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie
  • Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
  • Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1770
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 5 5/16 × 6 1/2 in. (13.5 × 16.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.88(101)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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