Patéres, plate 55 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
Plate 55, Plate with five sacrificial bowls shown from above. The bowl in the upper left has two centaures leading a chariot in which are seated a man and a woman. The bowl in the upper right has a seated woman in the far left, next to whom stands a saytr and a naked man who is being crowned by a naked woman with a staff on the far right, behind whom stands a small man. The bowl in the middle has two naked women facing one another, each standing in front of a horse seen in profile. The bowl in the bottom left has a man drinking from a bowl, dancing saytrs and a heavy man sitting on a mule, holding a fabric which bows out above his head. The bowl on the bottom right has a man kneeling before a dancing saytr on the left and a man in profile on the right playing the lyre. This is the third in a series of six views of sacrificial bowls which appears facing page 44, which has a description of the bowls.
Artwork Details
- Title: Patéres, plate 55 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: 13 13/16 × 13 1/16 in. (35.1 × 33.1 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.88(108)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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