Ornamental frame with Poetry and Painting, Bernard Picart (workshop or), 1732 Canvas Print

Ornamental frame with Poetry and Painting, Bernard Picart (workshop or), 1732 Canvas Print

Ornamental frame with the title in French, flanked by poetry and painting. In painting, a cloth is tied in front of the mouth. This refers to Horace's Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting). The frame is crowned with a cartouche in which Amor. Under the frame a cartouche in which a woman with a wall crown (Cybele?). This cartouche is flanked by Death as a skeleton and an old man who has just awakened.

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