Plates from Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, Traduction nouvelle Avec le texte latin, suivie d'une analyse de l'explication des Fables, de notes géographiques, historiques, mythologiques et critiques, Par M.G.T. Villenave; ornée de gravures d'après les dessins de MM. LeBarbier, Monsiau et Moreau. A Paris, Chez les Éditeurs, F. Gay Libraire, rue de la Harpe, Bureau de la Bible; Ch. Guestard, Avocat, rue Saint Germain-l'Auxerrois. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné. MDCCCVI.

published 1806–22
Not on view
Bound in a brown calf binding with marbled end papers. Plates only: 102 illustrations, each in first (etched) state and in a later engraved state, after Moreau le Jeune, Monsieau and LeBarbier.

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  • Title: Plates from Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, Traduction nouvelle Avec le texte latin, suivie d'une analyse de l'explication des Fables, de notes géographiques, historiques, mythologiques et critiques, Par M.G.T. Villenave; ornée de gravures d'après les dessins de MM. LeBarbier, Monsiau et Moreau. A Paris, Chez les Éditeurs, F. Gay Libraire, rue de la Harpe, Bureau de la Bible; Ch. Guestard, Avocat, rue Saint Germain-l'Auxerrois. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné. MDCCCVI.
  • Artist: Abraham Pietersz Hulk (Dutch, active late 18th–early 19th century)
  • Artist: Etienne Devilliers (French, active 19th century)
  • Artist: Antoine Abraham Devilliers (French, Paris 1784–1818 Paris)
  • Artist: Rémi Henri Joseph Delvaux (French, Paris 1748/50–1823 Paris)
  • Artist: Auguste Delvaux (French, active 19th century)
  • Artist: Vincent Marie Langlois, le Jeune (French, born Paris, 1756)
  • Artist: Wilbrod-Nicolas-Magloire Courbe (French, active late 18th–early 19th century)
  • Artist: Louis François Mariage (French, active 19th century)
  • Artist: N. Thomas (French, ca. 1750–ca. 1812)
  • Artist: Robert de Launay (French, Paris 1749–1814 Paris)
  • Artist: Jean Dambrun (French, Paris 1741–after 1808)
  • Artist: François Pigeot (French, born Paris, 1775)
  • Artist: Pierre Charles Baquoy (French, 1759–1829)
  • Artist: Emmanuel Jean de Ghendt (Flemish, Saint Niklaas 1738–1815 Paris)
  • Artist: Philibert Boutrois (French, active 1775–1814)
  • Artist: Pierre Philippe Choffard (French, Paris 1730–1809 Paris)
  • Artist: Claude François Fortier (French, Paris 1775–1835 Paris)
  • Artist: Georges Louis Biosse (French, 1752–1806)
  • Artist: Emmanuel Jean de Ghendt (Flemish, Saint Niklaas 1738–1815 Paris)
  • Artist: Antoine Cosme Giraud (French, 1760–1815)
  • Artist: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730–1809 Paris)
  • Artist: Jean Nicolas Lerouge (French, active 19th century)
  • Artist: Jean Jacques François Le Barbier (French, Rouen 1738–1826 Paris)
  • Artist: George Malbeste (French, Paris 1754–1843 Paris)
  • Artist: Jacques Louis Petit
  • Artist: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
  • Artist: Philippe Trière (French, Paris 1756–1815 Paris)
  • Artist: Philibert Boutrois (French, active 1775–1814)
  • Artist: After Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, Paris 1741–1814 Paris)
  • Artist: After Nicolas André Monsiaux (French, Paris 1754–1837 Paris)
  • Artist: After Jean Jacques François Le Barbier (French, Rouen 1738–1826 Paris)
  • Author: Written by Ovid (Roman, Sulmo 43 BCE–17 CE Tomis, Moesia)
  • Translator: Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave (French, Haute-Garonne 1762–1846 Paris)
  • Printer: Pierre Didot l'ainé (French, 1761–1853)
  • Publisher: F. Gay (French)
  • Publisher: Ch. Guestard (French)
  • Date: published 1806–22
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Overall: 14 15/16 × 11 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (38 × 28.5 × 6 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
  • Object Number: 46.132.1(1-204)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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