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Title: Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Barré, Louis, 1799-1857 Roux, H. (Henri), Sr Bouchet, Adolphe
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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. ce DEUXIÈME SÉRIE. 9î Cette idée, davoir représenté les trois enfants, extrê-mement petits, placés dans un nid, et la mère jouantavec eux comme avec des oiseaux, est nouvelle et nemanque pas de grâce, quoiquon puisse laccuser dunpeu de recherche. Tyndare ne semble ni étonné ni irritédu prodige du au cygne divin. Les autres personnagesont en général une attitude plus convenable aux circons-tances prodigieuses dont ils sont témoins. PLANCHE 14K Thétîs vient de plonger Achille dans le Styx, afin dele rendre invulnérable. La Fable raconte que pour fairecette opération la déesse tint son fils par le talon, et quecette partie seule resta exposée aux atteintes du fer. Lepeintre parait avoir choisi an autre moment de la mêmeaction, celui où. lhéroïque enfant, sorti des ondes dufleuve et placé dans une position plus commode, sourità sa mère. Deux autres nymphes, placées sur le bordde la source, admirent le courage de la mère et la grâcede lenfant. Sur des roch

Translation of Full Plate Description: "Thetis has just plunged Achilles into the Styx, in order to make him invulnerable. The fable relates that to perform this operation the goddess held her son by the heel, and that this part alone remained exposed to the attacks of the iron. The painter seems to have chosen another moment of the same action, the one where the heroic child, emerging from the waves of the river and placed in a more comfortable position, smiles at his mother. Two other nymphs, placed on the edge of the source, admire the courage of the mother and the grace of the child. On the rocks, a winged goddess, her forehead girded with a nimbus, presides over all the action: it is undoubtedly the goddess Styx, daughter of the Ocean and of Tethys, who should not be confused with Peleus's wife, Thétis. Styx was a kind of nemesis; she has wings and a long dress with sleeves, like this last goddess.

"This painting is much more remarkable in terms of composition and drawing than in terms of coloring. The attitude of the four women is full of charming contrasts; the lines are pure; the curves, and particularly that of the neck of one of the nymphs, are rendered with great skill. This is what has led some critics to suppose that this fresco was the copy of another painting, which must offer a complete masterpiece and unite in it all the genres of merit: in truth, this original has not yet been seen anywhere." - Louis Barré, 1870.

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