• Grouppe de marbre blanc representant deux chevaux du soleil, et deux Tritons qui les pensent - dans la Grotte de Versailles

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Picart, Etienne, 1632-1721
Engraver:
  • Picart, Etienne, 1632-1721
Contributor:
  • Marsy, Balthazard, 1628-1674
  • Marsy, Gaspard, 1624-1681
Call number:
  • A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01398
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 65.8 x 49 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
  • Signed in plate, below: "Par Gaspar et Balthazar de Marcy, de Cambray - Opus Gasparis et Balthazaris de Marcy, Cameracensium".
  • Signed in plate, lower center: "Stephanus Picart Romus sculpsit 1675".
Publisher:
  • [Paris : [s.n.], 1675.
Subject:
  • Animals in art
  • Horses in art
  • Mermen in art
  • Mythology, Greek, in art
  • Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
  • Sculpture—France—Versailles—In art
  • Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
  • Palaces—France—Versailles—In art
  • Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
  • Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Description de la grotte de Versailles—Illustrations
  • Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner
Date:
  • 1675
Alternative:
  • Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 17
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Acquired by Princeton in 1886 in an exchange with the Bibliotheque nationale (France). John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, effected the exchange, recorded by the BN as "Double e'change" No. 907.
Location:
  • GA A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01398
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/1v53k511p