Cybele, accompanied by Bacchus and Ceres, is carried on a chariot drawn by lions, surrounded by ancillary deities and followers; representing the element earth. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1721, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

  • Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.
Date:
[1721]
Reference:
3069786i
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Description

Ceres is followed by Pomona, who offers her an apple from a basket of fruit, and by Flora, who picks wild flowers. Bacchus is accompanied by a male bacchant who dances with a satyr or faun. In the background, on Bacchus's side a faun or satyr takes hold of a woman and kisses her, while on Ceres' side a woman wearing an oak wreath plays a tambourine. Above, two flying geniuses carry a basket of flowers. In the foreground two putti manage the yoked lions

Publication/Creation

Paris (rue de la Vannerie a l'image St. Michel) : Dupuis graveur du Roy, [1721]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 39.3 x 52.9 cm

Lettering

Terra. ... La terre ... Lud. de Boullongne inv. et pinxit. Carol. Dupuis sculp 1721. The lettering is repeated in French

Notes

Forms a pair with an engraving made by Dupuis in 1718 after Boullongne representing the air; also related to two other prints by Desplaces after Boullongne, representing fire and water, completing the set of the four elements

References note

Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VIII, Paris 1955, p. 366 no. 12

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3069786i

Reproduction note

After a painting exhibited at the Salon in 1699 (Roux and Pognon, loc. cit.)

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