Cornelis II Bloemaert (c. 1603-c. 1692), Chisel Engravings For Table Du Temple Des Muses, 1655

Four engravings from the "Tableaux du temple des muses draw from the cabinet of the late Mr Favereau, ... and engrave in soft cuts by the best masters of his time to represent the virtues and vices, on the most illustrious fables of the antiquity. With descriptions, remarks and annotations composed by Mrs Michel de Marolles, Abbé de Villeloin »
Famous work containing a title-frontispiece and 58 mythological plates out of text, engravings by Cornelis II (Le Jeune) Bloemaert (Utrecht, circa 1603 - Rome, circa 1692) illustrating the original edition of 1655, accompanied by scholarly commentaries by Abbé de Marolles (1600-1681).

Copies are kept at the BNF and in the Dutuit collection of the Petit-Palais Museum in Paris.

These four chisel engravings by Cornelis II Bloemaert (1603 - c. 1692) are:
- Prothée,
27th number of a series of 58 pieces
Inscription of the letter in Latin
Illustration for book 4 of Virgil's Georgics.
- Glaucus, 28th number of a series of 58 pieces
Inscription of the letter in Greek
Illustration for Book 35 of the Dionysiacs by the Greek poet Nonnos de Panapolis (4th-5th centuries).
- Niobe,
44th issue of a series of 58 pieces
Inscription of the letter in Latin
Illustration for Book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses
(number "44" inscribed lower right).
- Les Enfers,
53rd issue of a series of 58 pieces
Inscription of the letter in Latin
Illustration for Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid

Slight yellowing. Neat modern frames and anti-glare windows.