• Grouppe de marbre blanc, representant deux chevaux du soleil, et deux Tritons qui les pensent // [White marble scene, representing two horses of the sun, and two Tritons thinking of them].

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Baudet, Etienne, 1638-1711
Contributor:
  • Guerin, Gilles, ca. 1606-1678
Call number:
  • A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01399
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 66.7 x 49.5 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
  • Signed in plate, below: "Par Gilles Guerin Parisien // Dans la Grotte de Versailles" and lower right, "Opus Aegidii Guerin Parisini // In Crypta Versaliana".
  • Signed in plate, lower center: "Stephanus Baudet sculp. 1676".
Publisher:
  • [Paris : [s.n.], 1676.
Subject:
  • Animals in art
  • Horses in art
  • Mermen in art
  • Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
  • Sculpture—France—Versailles—In art
  • Mythology, Greek, 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:
  • 1676
Alternative:
  • Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 18
Range label:
  • Logical
Artist:
  • Baudet, Etienne, 1638-1711
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 2012.01399
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/9c67wv945