• Le Soleil qui se couche dans la mer, le globe de la Terre, divise en six parties // [The sun sets in the sea, the globe of the Earth is divided in six parts].

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
Engraver:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
Contributor:
  • Opstal, Gerard van, born 1594 or 1604, died 1668
Call number:
  • A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01387
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 58.7 x 45.5 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Art
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
  • Depiction: Architectural detail of upper register, Apollo bas relief; below, globes separating continents.
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1673".
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "bas reliefs au dessus des portes de la grotte de Versailles, par Girard Vanopstal de Bruxelles".
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "sculpt ad parietem exteriorem cryptae Versalianae, opus Girardi Vanopstal Bruxellensis".
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Subject:
  • Apollo (Deity)—Art
  • Gods, Greek, in art
  • Globes in art
  • Bas-relief—France—Versailles—In art
  • Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art
  • Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
  • Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
  • Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—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:
  • 1673
Alternative:
  • Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 3
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 2012.01387
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/6h4411593