Allegorical title page with the writer Jean de la Fontaine and his muse, Bernard Picart (workshop of), After Bernard Picart, 1721 print The writer Jean de la Fontaine writes in a book and is accompanied by his muse. A putto brings him a nap with water from the hippocrene, the river on the Mount Helicon and the source of poetic inspiration. He looks at the Greek fable writer Aesop who points to heaven where a cloud of truth and fable. Above them a cloth on which various fables are depicted. In the margin a five -line caption in French. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving inspiration of the poet
Allegorical title page with the writer Jean de la Fontaine and his muse, Bernard Picart (workshop of), After Bernard Picart, 1721 print The writer Jean de la Fontaine writes in a book and is accompanied by his muse. A putto brings him a nap with water from the hippocrene, the river on the Mount Helicon and the source of poetic inspiration. He looks at the Greek fable writer Aesop who points to heaven where a cloud of truth and fable. Above them a cloth on which various fables are depicted. In the margin a five -line caption in French. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving inspiration of the poet; 'Furore poetico' (Ripa). the poet and his muse. Hippocrene (fountain of Mount Helicon), produced when Pegasus' hoof struck the ground. Pegasus, the winged horse. Truth; 'Verità ' (Ripa). fables (+ variant)
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