Centauresse jouant de la Lire et des Cimbales avec un Jeune homme, D'aprés les Peintures antiques trouvées a Herculanum, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault French
Printer Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek Italian
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
Not on view
Plate 54, A female centaur strums a lyre with her left hand, while she plays the cymbal with a young male at her right. This image is based on a painting that was orginally in the House of Vettii in Pompeii (now in the Naples Archaeological Museum). While the majority of the images in the volume relate to Rome, this plate, as well as plates 52 and 53, reproduce panel paintings from Pompeii (near Herculaneum). Below this plate is an untitled image showing figures in an excavation site. These two images appear across from page 87, where the centaur scene is described; the preceding page 86 includes a section of text discussing the paintings from Herculaneum and Pompeii.
