Ruins of an ancient Roman palace: a family of travellers are seated looking after a baby, while people clamber on the roof above. Etching by J. Le Blond (?).

  • Le Blond, Jean, approximately 1635-1709.
Date:
[between 1600 and 1699]
Reference:
2914700i
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Description

Apparently inspired by the Palatine in Rome. The men on the roof look down through an oculus. Another man sits on the roof playing a flute and beating time with his feet. Below, a grotto contains a recumbent statue on a plinth, similar to the Vatican "Cleopatra"

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : Le Blond avec privilege, [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 14.8 x 18.5 cm

Contributors

References note

Not found in: Roger-Armand Weigert and Maxime Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, tome VII, Paris, 1951 (list of prints produced and published by various members of the Leblond family)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2914700i

Type/Technique

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