• Pilier orne de coquillages et de rocailles, avec un bassin de marbre en forme de coquille // [Pillar decorated with shells and stones, with a marble basin shaped like a cockleshell].

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
Call number:
  • A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01392
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 58.5 x 45.9 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
  • Depiction: Architectural detail of ornamental pillar with shell basin flanked by mermaid and merman, gargoyle head above.
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1673".
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Subject:
  • Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
  • Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
  • Columns—France—Versailles—In art
  • Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
  • Architecture—Details—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:
  • 1673
Alternative:
  • Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 9
Range label:
  • Logical
Etcher:
  • Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682
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 2012.01392
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/gx41mr978