Artist: Martin Bouché (Flemish, 1640-c. 1693).
Title: Aeacus' prayer (Illustration of Ovid's Metamorphoses).
Signed with monogram in plate: l.r. MB.
Dimensions: Image/platemark 6 1/2" x 9". Sheet/page 17 5/8" x 11". Mat 19" x 12".
Publisher: P. & J. Blaev, Janssons à Waesberge, Boom, & Goethals. Amsterdam, MDCCII.
Edition: Les métamorphoses d'Ovide, en latin et françois, divisées en XV livres. Avec de nouvelles explications historiques, morales & politiques sur toutes les fables, chacune selon son sujet; de la traduction de M. Pierre Du-Ryer Parisien de l'Académie françoise. Edition nouvelle, enrichie de tres-belles figures. (The first edition of the book, and this plate: Brussels, 1677).
Date: 1702.
Materials and Techniques: engraving on laid paper. Printed text verso as issued.
Mat and Frame: Matted.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Museums and Libraries: The Bibliothèque nationale de France. Gallica.
Identifier: ark:/12148/bpt6k722086.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Flemish School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from The Bibliothèque Nationale de France collection.