Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide : tradvites en prose francoise, & de nouueau soigneusement reueuës, corrigées. Avec qvinze dicovrs, contenant l'explication morale des fables. Ensemble quelques epistres traduites d'Ouide, & diuers autres traitez, dont cette impression a esté augmentée. Enrichies de nouueaux desseins, & de figures en taille-douce. Dediees a Madame de Lanssac
A 1651 Paris edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in French prose translation, published by Eustache Daubin and illustrated with copperplate engravings, dedicated to Madame de Lanssac. The page shows a single engraved scene of a figure in flowing drapery running through a garden of trees, rocks and a fountain, with a reclining figure at the bottom edge. A designer could take its loose, sketchy engraved line and its use of landscape with small architecture to set a mythological narrative in a wide outdoor space.
