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Bernard Picart's Atlas Supports the Heavens on his Shoulders, an original etching and engraving, the Temple of the Muses. Atlas: In Greek mythology, Atlas was one of the ancient race of Titans condemned by Zeus for his participation in the War of the Titans. His punishment was to forever support the Heavens on his shoulders. He was exiled to the Atlas mountains in Africa. The myth is thus a poetic rendering of these lofty peaks propping up the Heavens This original engraving and etching was both designed and engraved by Bernard Picart and originates from the Temple of the Muses (Neu-Erofneer Musen-Tempel), dealing with Greek mythology. This impression of Atlas Supports the Heavens on his Shoulders hails from the 1754 edition, published in both Amsterdam and Leipzig. |
Title: | Atlas Supports the Heavens on his Shoulders |
Artist: | Picart, Bernard (Paris, 1673 - Amsterdam, 1733) |
Date: | 1733 (1754 Edition) |
Medium: | Original Etching and Engraving |
Publisher: | Chatelain, Amsterdam and Leipzig |
Note: | Bernard Picart: An exceptional French eighteenth century engraver, Bernard Picart received his artistic education from his father, Etienne (1632-1721), and from Le Brun and Jouvenet at the Royal Academy. To say that Bernard Picart's considerable talents developed rapidly would be an understatement: at the age of sixteen he gained honors at the Academy of Paris. He moved permanently to Amsterdam in 1710. At this time this city was a major center for both publishing and printmaking and for the following two decades Bernard Picart's fine work placed him as the successor to Romeyn de Hooghe. |
Bernard Picart excelled chiefly in the fields of portraiture, ornamental designs and mythological and religious subjects, both after the old masters and upon his own creation. In the former category he was commissioned for portraits of Philip, Duke of Orleans, Eugene Francois, Prince of Savoy, Don Luis, Prince of the Asturias, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, and Kings Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and George I. As an ornamental engraver, Bernard Picart designed and engraved plates for numerous books. He also contributed large plates to such famous sets as Les Impostures Innocentes (seventy-eight large engravings in imitation of old master engravers), the historically important Ceremonies Religieuses (1723-1743), and The Temple of the Muses (Neu-Erofneer Musen-Tempel). | |
This beautiful engraving entitled Atlas Supports the Heavens on his Shoulders, originates from The Temple of the Muses, a portfolio of sixty plates both designed and engraved by Bernard Picart. (The artist also created the separately engraved, ornamental borders surrounding each image.) Obviously, the work involved in constructing these large and complex works of art was time consuming and the entire project took all of three years to complete. The completed set was published in Amsterdam by Chatelain in 1733, the year of Bernard Picart's death. Due to the popularity of these fine engravings dealing with significant events in Greek mythology, several subsequent editions were published. This original Bernard Picart engraving hails from the 1754 edition, published in both Amsterdam and Leipzig. | |
Raisonne: | G. K. Nagler, Neues Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon, Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig, Vol. 12, p. 416. |
Source: | The Temple of the Muses |
Size: | 13 1/2 X 10 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
Matted with 100% Archival Materials | |
Condition: | Printed upon eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in Amsterdam on the above date. Containing one small rust spot to the lower center of the image else a strongly printed example bearing all the fine lines and tonal values of an early impression and in good condition throughout. Altogether Atlas Supports the Heavens on his Shoulders represents a superb, original example of the engraved art of Bernard Picart from his famous Temple of the Muses. |
Price: | Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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