Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Enfant de bronze, representant le genie de la Puissance royalle, assis sur un Aigle, qui pousse en l'air un gros jet d'eau // [Bronze child, representing the spirit of the royal Power, seated on an Eagle, spouting a jet of water].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01384
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvm40z594d
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1677.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1677
Extent
1 item ; sheet 58.5 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: Fountain. Putto seated on an eagle.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre del et fc. 1677".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Dans les Jardins de Versailles, par Pierre le Gros de Chartres".
Signed in plate, lower right: "in horis Versalianis, opus Petri le Gros Carnutensis".

Discovery Information

Subject
Fountains—France—Versailles—In art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Gardens—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/e79a735e-5827-4cac-9713-224e2a8eed80/manifest