ECL-Bn.17:25-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.17:25-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Bronze relief: Peleus and Thetis
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Bn.17 no. 7
Description
Content (description)
The relief is taller than it is wide and is curved at the top. In the lower part are the gods at a banquet round a draped table, on which are two fish, a snail and a cockleshell. The figures at the table in the foreground sit on sea-monsters on billowing waves: on left Thetis, on right two nude bearded males, one bald. A nude youth behind the table points upward to where Jupiter leaps down from the clouds with his thunderbolt in his left hand and stretching his right hand to the head of his eagle top left. At upper right two draped figures stand on a rock; they are on a smaller scale than the other figures and therefore, perhaps, human.
There follows several lines from Ovid's Metamorphoses XI
Inscribed below: Elizabeth Cheron Le Hay delineavit J. Haussard sculp. 1713/
Jupiter cede Thetis a Pelee/ Bronze antique en bas relief du Cabinet de Monsieur l'Abe Bignon; il est de la grand.r de l'Estame. Cum privil. Regis.
There follows several lines from Ovid's Metamorphoses XI
Inscribed below: Elizabeth Cheron Le Hay delineavit J. Haussard sculp. 1713/
Jupiter cede Thetis a Pelee/ Bronze antique en bas relief du Cabinet de Monsieur l'Abe Bignon; il est de la grand.r de l'Estame. Cum privil. Regis.
Content (object)
relief
Dimensions
height (actual size): 528mm
width (actual size): 350mm
width (actual size): 350mm
Inscription
Bn.17.7
Inscription description
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Date
1713