Jupiter offers Thetis to Peleus, in order that her offspring may be not be greater than Jupiter himself. Engraving by J. Haussard, 1713, after E. Chéron Le Hay.
- Date:
- [1713?]
- Reference:
- 2661857i
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About this work
Description
Above, Jupiter in the sky. Centre, a council of the gods including Mercury, Mars, Diana and Neptune around a table on which are various seafoods. Among them, a young man (apparently Peleus) points up to Jupiter acknowledging the latter's gift of Thetis. Foreground, in the sea, are Thetis and Proteus. Right background, two magi wearing turbans, apparently representing the prophets who had predicted that Jupiter's son by Thetis would be greater than Jupiter himself
Publication/Creation
[Paris], [1713?]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with etching ; platemark 43.1 x 24.5 cm
Lettering
Jupiter cède Thetis à Pelée. Coniux dea contigit uni. Elizabeth Chéron Le Hay delineavit. J. Haussard sculp. 1713. Bronze antique en bas relief du cabinet de Monsieur l'Abbé Bignon; il est de la grand.r de l'estampe. Cum privil. regis.
Lettering continues with a version of eight Latin hexameters by Ovid, Metamorphoses XI. 221-228: Namque senex Thetidi Proteus praedixerat udae / Concipe: mater eris iuvenis, qui fortibus armis / Acta patris vincet maiorque vocabitur illo. / Ergo, ne quicquam mundus Iove maius haberet, / Quamvis haut tepidos sub pectore senserat ignes, / Iuppiter aequoreae Thetidis connubia vitat, / Inque sua Aeaciden succedere vota nepotem / Jussit, et amplexus in virginis ire marinae
References note
Yves Bruand et al., Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, vol. XI, Paris 1970, p. 253, no. 4
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2661857i
Reproduction note
After: a bronze relief "in the cabinet of Abbé Bignon", i.e. Jean Paul Bignon
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores