The Virgin with a Dragon at Her Feet

The Virgin with a Dragon at Her Feet

The Serpent and the Dragon as the central motif, with the Angel and the Wing and the Sun and the Moon in a secondary part. From The Flamel figures.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

  1. 1The Serpent and the Dragoncentral motif as it reads here: The Virgin and the Dragon
  2. 2The Angel and the Wingsecondary motif
  3. 3The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif

She stands on a crescent moon; the golden glory behind her is not counted as a sun. By eye

Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.

Record

Source
Rights
Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection marks the work as free of known copyright restrictions.
Restoration
None. A 1066 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Artist
Denis Molinier, painter of the 1772 to 1773 copies after the Flamel figures, Wellcome Collection
Titled here
The Virgin with a Dragon at Her Feet. Wellcome Collection catalogues it as: The pregnant Virgin Mary, with a dragon at her feet; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Colour painting after etching, 1772/3.
Checked
Wellcome Collection's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, accession rqxhtyah. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The Virgin with a Dragon at Her Feet”, Denis Molinier, after Nicolas Flamel, 1772. thesymbolica.com/work/the-virgin-with-a-dragon-at-her-feet/