La Vengeance du Philosophe Amoureux, plate 8 from "The Decameron"
Medium
Etching; proof before letter
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 3/8 in. (21.7 × 18.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.589(9)
Art Historical Context
This etching, titled *La Vengeance du Philosophe Amoureux* (The Revenge of the Amorous Philosopher), forms plate 8 in a 19th-century illustrated edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s *The Decameron*. Created by Belgian printmaker Léopold Flameng in 1873, the work draws from Boccaccio’s celebrated 14th-century collection of tales, written amid the Black Death as a framework for stories shared by young Florentines sheltering in the countryside. Flameng’s contribution brings fresh visual life to these enduring narratives through the refined medium of etching. As a proof before letter—an early impressi...
About the Artist
Giovanni Boccaccio|Léopold Flameng (Italian|French) · 1313 |1831 –1375 |1911
Italian, Paris 1313–1375 Certaldo, Tuscany|French (born Belgium), Brussels 1831–1911 Paris