Edm Bouchardon (1698-1762)

Putti and a nymph playing with a boar

细节

Edm Bouchardon (1698-1762)
Bouchardon, E.
Putti and a nymph playing with a boar
red chalk, watermark device in a cartouche
9 x 16.3/8 in. (228 x 415 mm.)

来源

Comte A. d'Angiviller, by descent to the previous owner.

出版

Stphane Melchior-Durand, 'Les dessins mythologiques de Bouchardon et le rforme du got sous Louis XV', in Paris, Capitale des Arts sous Louis XV, Annales du Centre Ledoux, Bordeaux, 1997, p. 117, fig. 84.

拍品专文

The scene depicted is an illustration for Book XIV of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The tale of Picus and Caneus concerns two victims of Circe, the sorceress who fell in love with Picus, husband of the nymph Caneus. She transformed him into a boar and later into a woodpecker.
Baron Portalis recorded fifty drawings by Bouchardon illustrating the Metamorphoses, quoting essentially the catalogue of the Paignon-Dijonval collection published in 1810.