Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto / Bernard Picart
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- Accession Number
- 2013/2.566
- Title
- Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto
- Artist
- Bernard Picart
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1673-1733
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Inscription
- Le Lutrin, Chant Troisiéme (lc in print); B. Picart Scul. dir. 1717. (lc in print); B. Picart. Sculp. dir. 1728. (ll in print); Engr. by B. Picart for "Le Lutrin" by Boileau. 1728 (verso lc inscribed in pencil)
- Dimensions
- 33 x 22.6 cm (13 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- Three men standing in a surprised movement with an owl coming out of an overturned lectern. There is decorated border around the drawing.
- Subject Matter
- The French satirist Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux wrote Le Lutrin in 1674. This "mock-heroic poem" recounts the quarrel of two church dignitaries over where to place the lectern in the church. This print depicts a scene from the 3rd Canto when three men try to move the lectern in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2472 x 3519
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2013/2.566
- Link to this Item
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"Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto; Bernard Picart." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.566/2013_2.566.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.