A gathering of the gods. Etching by C. Dupuis after P. Mignard.

  • Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.
Date:
1700-1799
Reference:
9877i
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Description

Records a ceiling painting by Pierre Mignard in the palace of Versailles. Left foreround, Venus has a cloak thrown round her by Vulcan; a cupid has a brazier, while another offers her a garland. Centre: Juno, Jupiter and Hebe (?). far right, Mars. Right background, a group including Time and Neptune. Other figures around the perimeter step over the border in a trompe l'oeil effect

Publication/Creation

1700-1799

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image and lettering 22.1 x 27.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Plafond du second sallon de la Petite Galerie du Chateau de Versailles. Laquear pictum in aula secunda minoris porticus in aedibus Versalicis. Mignard pinx. C. Dupuis sculp.

References note

Simon P. Mazière de Monville, La vie de Pierre Mignard premier peintre du roy, Amsterdam: Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1731, pp. 131-132
Marcel Roux et al., Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1951, tome VII, pp. 365-366, no. 11

Reference

Wellcome Collection 9877i

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