Althaea ... Picart's lovely chalk drawing ... its origin and its purpose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althaea_(mythology)

Picart's red chalk drawing probably derives from a "cartoon" created for tapestry weavers by Charles le Brun in the ?1650s?

Cartoons used for this purpose were full scale oil paintings and were rented to the manufacturers on a strict timescale so that their workers would only have enough time to weave one edition.  The rent was agreed in a complex contract and was for a substantial sum of cash, part of which was a deposit.

Le Brun's original set may have contained as many as twelve huge panels.

All that remains of the Althaea scene is a tapestry panel hanging at the chateau at Chambord.  The cartoon itself has long-since vanished.

Other cartoons, such as the one at Liverpool, are dated to 1658.

Le Brun died in 1690.

Picart's copy seems to date from 1712.

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.360

The print from Picart's studio is uncertainly dated.  It is very likely from 1712 because ( in my opinion ) Picart's later prints were more assured in their technique.

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1921-566

Bernard Picart used to design and print wedding notices, I'm not sure if they were before or after ...

 

interesting articles on maurice sendak ... outside, over there might be his masterpiece ...

 

https://www.wyso.org/arts-culture/2022-11-11/maurice-sendak-and-the-art-of-stealing

http://wereaditlikethis.blogspot.com/2012/06/outside-over-there-but-never-watched.html

Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby ... painted by Anthony van Dyck ... and her husband, Sir Kenelm Digby, by the same artist ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetia_Stanley

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Digby

dante gabriel rossetti's famous models ... elizabeth siddal, fanny cornforth, jane morris ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beata_Beatrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cornforth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Lilith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Morris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Dream_(Rossetti)

STIPPENDIA PECCATI MORS... : [estampe] ([État avec la lettre et l'adresse]) / J. B. Corneille in. et del. ; Mosin scul. ; Berey Scrip.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53128615s.r=Corneille%2C%20Jean-Baptiste?rk=171674;4

PEGASUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus

 

... to be continued ...

mantegna's parnassus ... in the louvre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnassus_%28Mantegna%29

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059312

party time on parnassus ... minerva drops in ...

 

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=5&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/RP-P-OB-102.324,48

Minerva visits Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, Pieter van den Berge, after Gerard de Lairesse, c. 1694 - in or before c. 1737

THE IMMORTALITY OF GARRICK ... there is a rarther fabulous print in the Royal Collection, derived from a painting by George Carter ... the Royal Shakespeare Company have recently had their painting conserved ... but to be honest, the print was an improvement

 

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/655027/immortality-of-garrick

garrick appears to have woken without any expression of delight or disturbance

... and shakespeare himself is already coming down the slopes of parnassus to welcome him

https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/archive/garrick-painting-goes-on-show#:~:text=The%20Apotheosis%20of%20Garrick%20is,the%20RSC%20Collection%20in%201911.

https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/%22Immortality_of_Garrick%22

Parnassus

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=4&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=6#/RP-P-OB-1970,42

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parnassus

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/345269

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_WB-48

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/655027/immortality-of-garrick

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1853-0307-343

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_2012-5001-239

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5226-149

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1957-1214-188

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1900-0611-4

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_V-10-155

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1874-0808-1414

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1856-0308-294

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=4&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=9#/RP-P-1938-1725,45

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=2&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/RP-P-1881-A-4765,12

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=2&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=2#/RP-P-1878-A-2164,14

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=5#/RP-P-OB-70.426,5

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=3&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/RP-P-OB-61.532,24

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=5&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=6#/RP-P-1965-562,54

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=7&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=1#/RP-P-OB-51.166,73

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=Parnassus&p=5&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/RP-P-OB-102.324,48