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  • A burial suttee: a widow has been placed in a grave beside her dead husband. Engraving after B. Picart, 1729.
  • Proserpine, represented by a personification of night. Engraving by B. Picart after J.M. Raon.
  • Saint Gregory, doubting the stigmata of Saint Francis, sees in a dream Saint Francis filling a chalice with his blood. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.
  • Frontispiece to Le Brun's 'Passions' (left) and a face expressing tranquillity (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1698, after C. Le Brun.
  • Melpomene, Polyhymnia and Erato. Etching by G. Duchange after B. Picart after E. Le Sueur.
  • Heraclitus. Line engraving by Dupin after Picart.
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • A Chinese monk having been found with a woman has his neck pierced with a chain and is whipped by another monk when he touches his neck. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.
  • Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
  • Members of the Greek Orthodox congregation of the Holy Grave in Jerusalem waiting at Easter for a good position for the arrival of the Holy Light and Lighting. Etching after B. Picart, 1730.
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A funeral in a French church: the coffin is sprayed with holy water and lowered into the grounds of the church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • The face of a woman in ecstasy (left); a female face expressing simple love (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying man in a bedchamber with a makeshift altar. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: holy communion. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A saint lying on his death bed is visited by the Virgin, saints and angels. Etching by B. Picart after G. Reni.
  • Face of a frightened soldier (left); the human face in an animal state of fear (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confirmation. Etching after B. Picart.
  • The Roman Catholic sacraments: baptism. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A group of mourners visiting a coffin layed out on a bier to pay their last respects to the dead. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Two faces expressing scorn, one (left) in outline. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces, one in outline, expressing horror. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two outlines of faces showing astonishment and fear (left) and laughter (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Sounding the horn at the Jewish new year service. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Heraclitus. Line engraving by Dupin after Picart.
  • Ruth, having gleaned barley in a field owned by Boaz, is given hospitality by him. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.