Memnon from the "Temple des Muses"
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Memnon from the "Temple des Muses"
- Mythological scene at dawn with the Ethiopian king Memnon leaning against a sarcophagus and watching the sun rising on the horizon, pyramids and obelisks in background; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; from an album containing sixty engravings trimmed and pasted on sheets; illustration on page 131 from Marolles' "Temple des Muses" (Paris, Nicolas Langlois: 1655). c.1635-1638[1]
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