Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “LeBarbier inv. / D Née. Sc” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Mais Venus en est la Pretreße, / Et les Amours les Deßervants.” Keywords: altars (religious fixtures) audiences baskets (containers) censers chitons Civilisation, Classical clouds dishes (object […]
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S.3.13 Priere a morphée
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / Née Sc” Artist: Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François Engraver: Née, François Denis Year: Inscription: “Ô toi, Morphée, ô toi, qu’environnent les songes.” Keywords: bed hangings, Chiroptera (order), chitons, cushions, incense, Morpheus (Greco-Roman deity), Mythology, Classical, night, putti (children), sandals, sleeping, […]
S.3.09 L’avare et la jeune esclave
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv / Masquelier Sc” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Mille talens….ah! le Corsaire / Cria l’Avare en s’ensuiant.” Keywords: Civilization, Classical, harps (chordophones), pilasters,Ionic order, beds (furniture), bed coverings,urns, doors, doorways, naked female body, […]
S.2.11 La statue de l’amitie
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Taking his lead from the lyrics of the song, which sets the scene in the studio of ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles (4th century BCE), Le Bouteau depicts that space, and dresses his figures in classical garb. The depiction of the sculptor’s studio takes some liberties with […]
S.2.09 Le prêtre d’esculape
Look: View Image(s): 1773 Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / L J Masquelier Sc.” Artist: Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy Engraver: Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I Year: Inscription: “Mais aux marches du sanctuaire, / Pour Prêtre, elle voit son amant:” Keywords: aegricanes, Aesculapius (Greco-Roman deity), altar canopies, altars (religious fixtures), baldachins (canopies), bas-reliefs […]
