Heraclitus. Line engraving by L. M. Halbou after a painting attributed to J. Ribera.

Date:: An8

Reference:: 4152i

Part of:: Galerie du Palais Royal.

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Heraclitus. Line engraving by L. M. Halbou after a painting attributed to J. Ribera. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A tear falls from his right eye, as he weeps at the folly of mankind, and he points towards an unpeopled mountainous landscape, perhaps in accordance with his biography Diogenes Laertius IX.1, "Finally, having become a misanthrope and having left the beaten path, he lived in the mountains feeding on grass and plants"

Publication/Creation

An8.

Physical description

1 print : engraving

Series

Galerie du Palais Royal.

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Lettering

Le philosophe Héraclite. De la Galerie du Palais d'Orléans. Ecole napolitaine. IIIme tableau de Jospeph Ribera surnommé l'Espagnolet. Peint sur toile, ayant de hauteur 9 pieds 1 pouce sur 6 pieds 1 pouce de large. ... Peint par Joseph Ribera. Gravé par L.M. Halbou Extensive engraved description in French below the image

Edition

[State with border and notice].

References note

Yves Bruand, Michèle Hébert, and Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XI, Paris 1970, pp. 221-222, no. 209. ("(206-213). Pl. dans la Galerie du Palais-Royal de Couché (Paris, 1786-1808, 3 vol. in-fol.)…. Tome II. 209. Le philosophe Héraclite... Sous le tr. c. : " Peint par Joseph Ribera — An 8 — Gravé par L.M.Halbou. H. 0m204 X L. 0m161. Eau-forte pure, avant toute lettre et avant la bordure mais avec les armes d'Orléans, … État avant la notice la bordure, les armes d'Orléans effacées,… État avec la notice et la bordure")

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1369.6

Not found in: N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan 1978

Reference

Wellcome Collection 4152i

Creator/production credits

Attributed in the lettering to Ribera, but no painting of this composition is listed by Spinosa, op. cit.

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