Batilde, cul-de-lampe (Baculard d'Arnaud, The Trials of Emotion vol1) - Massard after Eisen
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Date :
1770
Type of image :
Gravure sur cuivre
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Storage Location :
RESERVE 8-BL-19038 (1)
Signed work
Description
This allegorical cul-de-lampe seems to illustrate the virtue of Batilde, who became the wife of Clovis II despite her love for Archambaud, mayor of the Neustrian palace. Preferring duty to passion, she dies in the very reputation of sanctity.
History :
- Signed below: left "Carle Eisen inv.", right "Maßard sculp."
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Technical Data
Notice #025484
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Image web
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Copyright / Photographer :
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France