Blinde Homerus aan de kust, Raphael Urbain Massard, after François Gérard, 1816

Title(s)

Blinde Homerus aan de kust
Homere (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1939-1055

Catalogue reference

• Apell 14
• LeBlanc 32-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Raphael Urbain Massard (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Giraldon (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: François Gérard (mentioned on object)
• printer: Durand (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Raphael Urbain Massard (mentioned on object)
• Raphael Urbain Massard (mentioned on object)
• Ennio Quirino Visconti (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1816

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 555 mm × width 410 mm

What

• idealized portrait of Homer, blind and wearing a crown of laurel
• rocky coast

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1939

Copyright

Public domain

• Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des 19. Jahrhunderts, welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter, Aloys Apell, cat.nr. 14