Ariadne abandoned by Theseus on Naxos: as the fleet of Theseus departs, Bacchus appears from behind a tree. Etching by F. Vivares, 1742, after Claude Lorraine.

  • Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
Date:
Oct.r 25th 1742
Reference:
3055819i
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Description

Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII.174-177: "protinus Aegides rapta Minoide Diam / vela dedit comitemque suam crudelis in illo / litore destituit. Desertae et multa querenti / amplexus et opem Liber tulit". Ariadne is shown in a pose based on that of the statue called Cleopatra or Ariadne, in the Vatican (F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 184-187, no. 24). The setting is supposed to be Greece but is based on Claude's views of the Roman Campagna

Publication/Creation

[London] : Publish'd by A. Pond, Oct.r 25th 1742.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 31.1 x 40.2 cm

Lettering

In the collection of S.r Wm. Morice 3 feet 3 inch wide. 2 feet 5 inch high. Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinx. 1656. Vivares sculp.

References note

D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, pp. 113-114, no. 208

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3055819i

Reproduction note

After a painting composed in the opposite direction which subsequently passed to the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York (Cecchi, loc. cit.)

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