Amsterdam, Chatelain, Zacharias (I), Picart, Bernard, Title page for: A. de La Barre de Beaumarchais, Le temple des muses, 1733, Ornamental frame with Poetry and Painting, verso lower left - stamped, Ornamental frame with the title in French, flanked by Poetry and Painting. In Painting a cloth is tied over the mouth. This refers to Horace's Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting). The frame is crowned with a cartouche containing Amor. Below the frame a cartouche containing a woman with a mural crown (Cybele?). This cartouche is flanked by Death as a skeleton and an old man who has just woken up., print, engraving, title page, prints, height 405 mm, width 290 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1732 - 1732, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, graveren (drukprocedé), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher
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Amsterdam, Chatelain, Zacharias, I, Picart, Bernard, Title page, A, de La Barre de Beaumarchais, Le temple des muses, 1733, Ornamental frame, Poetry, Painting, verso lower, left, - stamped, title, French, flanked, cloth, tied, mouth, refers, Horace's Ut pictura poesis, painting, frame, crowned, cartouche, containing, Amor, cartouche containing, woman, mural crown, Cybele, Death, skeleton, old man, woken up, print, engraving, title page, prints, height 405 mm, width 290 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1732 - 1732, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, graveren, drukprocedé, intermediary draughtsman, drawing, Publication, Event, Publicatie, publisher
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