Bernard Picart (1673–1733)
“Orpheé tué par les
Baccantes” (Orpheus killed by
the Bacchantes), 1724 (as dated in plate), after Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665),
plate 43 in the series, “Impostures Innocentes, ou Recueil d'estampes d'après
divers peintres illustres”, published in Amsterdam by Picart’s widow (chez la
Veuve B. Picart) in 1734.
Etching on wove paper with a pale plate tone and printed in sienna
coloured ink.
Size: (sheet) 27.8 x 42.5 cm; (plate) 20.6 x 33.4 cm; (image
borderline) 19.1 x 32.4 cm.
Numbered in plate: (upper right corner) “43”.
Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “N.
Poussin pinxit, B. Picart sculpsit 1724.”; (centre) “Orpheé tué par les
Baccantes. Ovid. metam. livr. XI.”
State ii (of ii) with the addition of the plate number.
LeBlanc 83 (J.Ch. Brunet & Ch. Leblanc 1854[–1889],
“Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de
toutes les nations: ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire”, vol.
3, Paris, p. 192, cat. no. 83).
The British Museum offers the following description of this
print (not reproduced): “Death of Orpheus, after Nicolas Poussin; Bacchanalia
set in a landscape, with, in the middleground, a group of Bacchantes gathered
before Orpheus, who lies on the ground and seems to be imploring them; in the
foreground, women drinking at centre, and two women with thyrsus standing at
right. 1724 Etching” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1109-785).
The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this
print: (transl.) “The maenads of Ciconia kill Orpheus after he loses Eurydice.
During a bacchanal they beat him with sticks and stones” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.303447).
Condition: a very strong and well-printed impression with
generous margins. Beyond minor surface marks and age-toning in the margins, the
sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or
significant stains.
I am selling this stunningly beautiful etching of a Bacchanalian
gathering of Thracian women (Maenads) shown drinking and dancing before they
ultimately kill and tear apart love-sick Orpheus, for the total price of AU$226 (currently US$148.40/EUR137.12/GBP117.10 at the time of posting this
listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the
world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this superb etching, please
contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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