Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Bassin de 10 pieds de diametre, d'une seule pierre, et au milieu trois petits Tritons de metail dore qui soutiennent une coquille de bronze. // [Pool 10 feet in diameter with a single stone, and in the middle, three small Tritons supporting a golden bronze shell.]
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01381
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcm900p777b
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1673
Extent
1 item ; sheet 58.4 x 45.3 cm.
References
Possibly from Grotte, labyrinthe, fontaines et bassins de Versailles, Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1727
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Depiction: Architectural detail with three tritons forming pediment of shell tray.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps, 1673".
Signed in plate, lower left: "a Versailles, par Pierre le Gros de Chartres".
Signed in plate, lower right: "In hortis Versalianis, opus Petri le Gros Carnutei".

Discovery Information

Subject
Fountains—France—Versailles—In art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Palaces—France—Versailles—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1ad6f4e3-1065-4881-a788-177b354965c8/manifest