Zenon Philosophe

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collector's mark: Lugt 240

Art Historical Context

**Zenon Philosophe** is a delicate engraving by Bernard Picart, a masterful French artist born in 1673, in 1699 when he was just beginning to establish his reputation. Depicting Zeno the Philosopher—likely the ancient Greek founder of Stoicism—this intimate portrait (175mm × 120mm) captures stoic gaze of a thinker whose ideas on virtue and self-control profoundly shaped Western philosophy. Picart, trained in the rigorous tradition of French engraving, produced this during a time of intellectual ferment in Europe, bridging the Baroque era and the dawning Enlightenment. Engraving, Picart's pref...

About the Artist

Bernard Picart · 1673–1733

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