Jupiter casting thunderbolts from the sky. Engraving by M. Küsel after S. Vouet.

  • Vouet, Simon, 1590-1649.
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[before 1683]
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2815029i
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view Jupiter casting thunderbolts from the sky. Engraving by M. Küsel after S. Vouet.

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Jupiter casting thunderbolts from the sky. Engraving by M. Küsel after S. Vouet. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Augsburg : Melchior Küsell ex, [before 1683]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 25 x 19.6 cm

Lettering

Flammanti e solio vibras quos Jupiter ignes / Excipiant Aquilae, sed nos haec fulmina terrent. Sim. Vouet pinx. ; Melchior Küsell ex. Augsburg Translation of lettering: The fires which, Jupiter, you shake from your flaming throne, the eagles may carry them off, but these thunderbolts terrify us

Notes

One work in a series representing the four elements, this one representing fire

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2815029i

Reproduction note

After a painting by Vouet at Fontainebleau, probably via an engraving by Michel Dorigny, 1645

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