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

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Elisabeth Sophie Chéron (author)
,
Anonieme meester (engravers (printmakers))

Date

ca. 1728

Period

18th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Elisabeth Sophie Chéron , Anonieme meester
Types burin engraving , etching
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 185 x 193 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2015-CN
Description
Subjects allegory (artistic device) AAT, figures (representations)
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass, night Iconclass, dream Iconclass, sleeping on the ground Iconclass, sleeping on the ground - BB - out of doors Iconclass, forest, wood Iconclass, trees Iconclass, (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-CN
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8592/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-CN
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