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Patéres, plate 56 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"

After Jean Barbault French
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
1770
Not on view
Plate 56, Plate with two sacrificial bowls, one larger and one small, shown from above and a detail of a bowl handle. The larger bowl is on the right side of the plate and has two dancing figures viewed in profile- a man with a lion skin and a woman in a dress looking at a mirror which she holds up in her left hand. The smaller bowl is on the left side of the plate and has a woman viewed from behind sitting on a bull standing, holding an arrow to its head. This is the fourth in a series of six views of sacrificial bowls which appears facing the blank verso of page 44. Page 45 has a description of these bowls.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title:
    Patéres, plate 56 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
  • Series/Portfolio:
    Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie
  • Artist:
    After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
  • Printer:
    Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher:
    Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in:
    Rome
  • Date:
    1770
  • Medium:
    Etching
  • Dimensions:
    Plate: 13 13/16 × 13 1/16 in. (35.1 × 33.1 cm)
  • Classification:
    Prints
  • Credit Line:
    Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number:
    52.519.88(109)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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