Nevers, Plate Historié Picpus And Circe.

Nevers earthenware plate decorated polychrome historié full of King Picpus repelling the advances of Circe in a landscape, a boar on the right, the figures named Picpus and Circe and the date 1737. On the reverse, the inscription: picpus set Piver by Circe, 6th fable of the 14 'book of the meta ..... dovide the 29 7bre 1737. Cf. Reproduced by Jean Rosen, the faience of Nevers, 1585-1900, the XVIII ° century, the era of the manufactures , 2009, vol.3, p. 97, fig.159 and 160. Jean Rosen identified eleven plates of the same series, dated between 1734 and 1737, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses. One of them, bearing the monogram cmB, leads the author to suggest that they may be in the hands of Claude Bigourat father. Jean Rosen also reproduces the engraving published by Tempesta in 1606 which served as a source for the painting of this plate.