• Veue de la face exterieure de la Grotte des Versailles // [View of the exterior face of the Versailles Grotto].

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
Engraver:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
Call number:
  • A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01386
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 49 x 68 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engraving
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1672".
  • Depiction: Architectural detail from façade of the grotto of Thetis with bas-reliefs of Apollo, tritons, cupids, and dolphins. Various figures standing in foreground.
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1672.
Subject:
  • Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
  • Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art
  • Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
  • Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
  • Palaces—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:
  • 1672
Alternative:
  • Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 2
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 2012.01386
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/2r36v5666