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Proserpina Chimney


Metamorphic Designs (Jean Lepautre, 1618-82)†

From a U.Va. album of prints published by Mariette, Paris, ca. 1660;
special thanks to Ann Whiteside, Director, and
Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library

 †On Lepautre and his weirdly suggestive Ovidian designs see now Maxime Préaud, Inventaire du Fonds Français, graveurs du xviie siècle, Paris, 1993-99, vols. 11-12 (mythological suites, 11.108-26; ornamental myth-insets, 12 passim), along with Henkel 131-36.

Notes/Links Keyed to Particular Scenes:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15  //  Jean Lepautre's Nearest Source, Wilhelm Baur  //  Variation Thematics

Alcoves and Chimney-pieces

13/10 Aeneas' Piety toward His Father -- 4/2 Pyramus and Thisbe's Death -- 6/3 Marsyas Is Flayed by Apollo [?] -- 5/6 Pluto Bears Off Proserpina -- 3/6 Semele Is Killed in Jove's Embrace -- 7/14 Procris' Death -- 6/3 Marsyas Is Flayed by Apollo -- 9/4 Apotheosis of Hercules -- 10/4 The Boy Cyparissus into a Tree. -- 3/4 Acteon into a Stag -- 6/9 Orithyia Is Raped by Boreas -- 3/7 Narcissus into a Flower -- Europa in State (cf. 2/17) -- Europa in State 2 (cf. 2/17)

Larger Tableaux

14/9 Iphis Hangs Himself -- 9/10 The Girl Iphis into a Man -- 10/10 Myrrha Goes to Bed with Her Father -- 15/5 Julius Caesar into a Star -- 5/4 The Muses into Birds -- 10/8 Ivory Statue into a Person -- 14/8 Vertumnus into an Old Woman -- 10/15 Adonis into Anemone Flower -- 6/8 Procne Kills Her Own Offspring -- 4/3 Venus' Adultery with Mars -- 4/4 Leucothoe into an Incense Branch -- 11/12 Ceyx and his Wife into Halcyons -- 5/2 Phineus and Friends into Stone -- 7/13 Cephalus and Procris -- 9/9 Lyctus and Telethusa His Wife -- 4/7 Athamus and Ino Are Driven Insane -- 12/1 The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia -- 4/9a Jupiter into a Golden Shower -- 13/1 Ajax's Quarrel with Ulysses -- 14/1b Aeneas' Meeting with Dido at Carthage -- 12/5 The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs -- 12/5c The Death of Achilles -- 13/4 The Fall of Troy -- 13/10 Aeneas' Piety toward His Father -- 8/7 Hunting Meleager Kills a Boar -- 7/7a Medea Attempts Theseus' Life -- 8/1 Scylla and Minos -- 15/5 Julius Caesar into a Star -- 2/17 Jupiter into a Bull -- 14/2b Ulysses' Mates Visit Circe -- 13/10d The Judgment of Paris -- 6/1 Niobe Is Slain with Her Children -- 1/8 Lycaon into a Wolf -- 5/6 Pluto Bears Off Proserpina -- 7/0 The Harpies; Calais and Zetes -- 8/8 Meleager and Atalanta -- 7/13 Cephalus and Procris -- 3/7 Narcissus into a Flower -- 2/9 Erichthonius is Shut in a Chest -- 4/5 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Become One -- 3/4 Acteon into a Stag -- 3/7 Narcissus into a Flower