Temperance receives a bit in order to control a camel; below, she restrains a unicorn. Engraving by G. Audran, 1675, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

  • Domenichino, 1581-1641.
Date:
1675
Reference:
2897459i
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Publication/Creation

[À Paris (rue St. Jacques à l'Aigle)] : [chez N. Bonnart]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 36.1 x 27.8 cm

Lettering

La temperance étoufe les plaisir, et modère les esprits feroces. Retenez les, en leur donnant un frein. Sp. 31. ... Pein du Dominiquain à Rome dans l'église St Charles ; G. Audran sculp. Romae 1675

References note

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil. Le peintre-graveur français: ou catalogue raisonné des estampes ..., volume 9, Paris: G. Warée, 1865, pp. 300-301, no. 120 (edition published by Joullain)
Not found in: Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome I, Paris 1939, pp. 124-149 (prints by Gérard Audran)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2897459i

Language note

Lettering includes the Latin texts of the French Biblical quotations describing the attributes of the virtues

Notes

One print in a set of four prints of the four cardinal virtues by Gérard Audran after Domenichino

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