Bernard Picart

Bernard Picart is represented here by a small group of drawings made in pen and brown ink with brown wash, often heightened with white on blue paper. Their subjects are drawn from classical mythology, ranging from the feasting of King Midas and the gods to nymphs, satyrs, and the Calydonian boar hunt. The sheets date to 1716, and the collection holds nine works in all, executed in closely related variants of the same technique.

9 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Portrait of Andrea Palladio in half-length within an oval frame; a compass, carpenter's square, and plumb line rest on the plinth below the oval

1716 · Engraving

King Midas Feasting At The Arrival of Silenus

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on blue paper

Nymphs And Satyrs

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on blue paper

Dancing Nymphs in a Glade

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Feast of the Gods

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Fall of the Giants

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Death of Niobe and Her Children

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white on blue paper. Later retouched with brush and gray ink

Fight Between Perseus And Phineus in the Palace of Cephus

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white