A woman (Juno?) with a staff encircled by a snake and a peacock. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.

  • Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.
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1560
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25863i
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A woman (Juno?) with a staff encircled by a snake and a peacock. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The peacock is the attribute of Juno, but the woman holds the staff encircled by a snake, the attribute of Aesculapius: it is not clear why. There are elaborate demons holding rosaries on both sides

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1560

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1 print : line engraving ; image 6.9 x 5.4 cm

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References note

André Linzeler, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du seizième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome premier, Paris 1932, p. 288, no. 347 ("Les divinités de la fable. Suite de six estampes à fond noir, de forme ovale sauf une. Chaque divinité est entourée d'arabesques. Au bas, au-dessous des compositions, sur les trois premières : "Cum privilegio Regis. Stephanus. fecit." et sur les trois dernières: "Cum privilegio Regis. S. f." .... 347. — 2. Junon. — Elle est debout regardant vers la gauche; son paon, placé derrière elle, apparaît sur la droite. —H. 0m071—L. 0m055. Robert-Dumesnil, IX, p. 108, 360.")

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Wellcome Collection 25863i

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