• Demy pilier avec les mesmes ornamens // [Half-pillar with the same ornaments].

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 2012.01396
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 58.5 x 45.8 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; split down center.
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps 1673".
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Subject:
  • Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
  • Columns—France—Versailles—In art
  • Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
  • Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—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. 13
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 2012.01396
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/hx11xp360