Meleager
Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, French, 1655 - 1741
1724
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 15 × 8 7/8 in. (38.1 × 22.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Herbert Faulkner West, Class of 1922
PR.972.215
Portfolio / Series Title
L'Antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures, tome XI (Meleager, from Antiquity Explained and Represented in Illustrations, Volume 11)
Publisher
Florentin Delaulne
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
18th century
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper center: MELEAGRE.; upper right: XLIV. Pl. du Tom. I.; lower center: Gallerie Justinienne; lower left: 46; lower right: Tom. I. 44
Label
This page illustrates an ancient marble statue of Meleager, the mythological hero known for killing the fearsome Calydonian boar. Published in the early 18th century, this print has been cut from a book compiling illustrations of Greek and Roman sculpture by the French monk and archeologist Bernard de Montfaucon. The author had studied noble collections of ancient sculpture; this statue once belonged to the collection of Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani. The predecessors to modern museums, such aristocratic collections were records of ancient history as well as sources of artistic inspiration for contemporary artists. Interest in Greece and Rome was high as Europeans sought to understand their ancient history, and the first print run of this book sold out in only two months.
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
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