Venus appears to Aeneas while he is being treated after being wounded in battle. Engraving by L. Desplaces after J.B. Nattier, 17--.

  • Nattier, Jean-Baptiste, 1678-1726.
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[between 1700 and 1799]
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572671i
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The healer Iapyx attempts to cut a missile out of Aeneas's side, but fails until Venus sprinkles juice of the herb Cretan dittany on the wound, causing the missile to slide out of the wound. "Atque ea dum campis victor dat funera Turnus, / interea Aenean Mnestheus et fidus Achates / Ascaniusque comes castris statuere cruentum, / alternos longa nitentem cuspide gressus. / Saevit et infracta luctatur harundine telum / eripere auxilioque viam, quae proxima, poscit / ense secent lato vulnus telique latebram / rescindant penitus seseque in bella remittant. / Iamque aderat Phoebo ante alios dilectus Iapyx / Iasides, acri quondam cui captus amore / ipse suas artes, sua munera, laetus Apollo / augurium citharamque dabat celerisque sagittas ...."—Virgil, Aeneid XII, 383-394 and following

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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799]

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1 print : engraving ; image 29.3 x 26.5 cm

Lettering

Aeneam castris stauere cruentum. Virg. Aeneid. lib. 12. Conduit sur la rive Latine, / Aenée au combat est blessé; / Par le dieu de la médecine / Dans l'instant même il est blessé .... J.B. Natier l'aisné delin. ; L. Desplaces sculps.

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1951, tome VII, p. 82, no. 29 (as not in the Bibliothèque nationale)

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Wellcome Collection 572671i

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