Le Soleil apres avoir acheve son cours descend chez Thetis, ou six de ses Nymphes sont occupees a le Servir, & a luy offrir toutes sortes de rafraichissemens. // [The Sun, having completed its course, descends by Thetis, where six of her nymphs are servin
Le Soleil apres avoir acheve son cours descend chez Thetis, ou six de ses Nymphes sont occupees a le Servir, & a luy offrir toutes sortes de rafraichissemens. // [The Sun, having completed its course, descends by Thetis, where six of her nymphs are servin
Language:
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
Edelinck, Jean, 1643-1680
Engraver:
Edelinck, Jean, 1643-1680
Call number:
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2013.00210
Extent:
1 item ; sheet 52.7 x 60.3 cm.
Format:
Visual material
Type:
In art
Description:
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Depiction: Six nymphs attending to the Sun after it descends.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Joannes Edelinck sculpsit. 1678".
Publisher:
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1678.
Subject:
Nymphs (Greek deities) in art
Sun—In art
Goddesses, Greek, in art
Sculpture—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—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
Personification in art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner
Date:
1678
Alternative:
Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 16
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 2013.00210