De Jupiter, et d'une Abeille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Jupiter, et d'une Abeille
Subject: Mythology; Bugs; Gods
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A Bee offered its honey to Jupiter. Jupiter promised her to acknowledge such a pious action, to grant her what she wished to be just and reasonable. The Bee asked him at that very moment, for the strength to mortally wound those who would ravage her hives. Jupiter saw that he could not bury her request without her leaving her sting within the body of her enemies, which would deprive her of her life, instead of rewarding her, and to deprive her of the opportunity to render the justice which he owes to men.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28942
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28942_OBJ.jpg