• Petits Amours qui se jouent avec les dauphins // [Little Cupids that play with the dolphins].

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 2012.01389
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 58.5 x 45.6 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
  • Depiction: Architectural detail with two circular registers, putti riding dolphins.
  • 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: "sculpti ad parietem exteriorem Cryptae Versalianae, opus Girardi Vanopstal Bruxellensis".
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Subject:
  • 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. 5
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 2012.01389
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/qf85nk41w