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The Night Spreads Her Dreams, engraving from the book Pierres antiques gravées et tirées de principaux cabinets de la France by Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron after Ovid's Metamorphoses, ca. 1728

  • burin engraving, etching, paper
  • 185 x 193 mm
  • Inv. 2015-CN

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Artist

Anonymous Master
engravers (printmakers)AAT

Elisabeth Sophie Chéron RKD
Paris 1648 - Paris 1711
authorAAT

Title The Night Spreads Her Dreams, engraving from the book Pierres antiques gravées et tirées de principaux cabinets de la France by Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Date ca. 1728
Period 18th century
Medium and support burin engraving AAT
etching AAT
Collection print room
Object type burin engraving AAT
etching AAT
Inventory number 2015-CN
Acquisition credit unknown
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-CN
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8592/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 23R14 night Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25H15 forest, wood Iconclass
31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31B13 sleeping on the ground Iconclass
31B3 dream Iconclass
31BB13 sleeping on the ground - BB - out of doors Iconclass
83(OVID, Metamorphoses) (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass
School / Style Rococo AAT
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