Ursula Stock - Schnur-Gerüst, 1995

Georges MATHIEU (1921-2012)

Arcadia found - circa 1986

Alkyde on canvas

92cm x 73cm

Signed at the bottom of the center "Mathieu" and titled on the back on the chassis "L'Arcadie Retrouvée"

Prosper Jollois and Edouard Devilliers were members of a surveying team who were supposed to be studying irrigation techniques in Upper Egypt. When they learned about the Zodiac from Denon, they visited Dendera and made a more careful measured drawing of the artifact, which was later published in the Description de l'Égypte. The large figure on the right is Nut. Image source: Napoleon I, (Edme-François) Jomard, and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier. Description de l’Egypte.... Antiquités planches, vol. 4, A Paris: De L’Imprimerie impériale, 1809-1828, pl. 21. 

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