Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Enfant de bronze, représentant le génie de la valeur, assis sur un lion dévorant un loup, qui pousse en l'air un gros jet d'eau. / Puer ex aere, Genium Fortitudinis repraesentans, insidens Leoni voranti Lupum, e cujus faucibus aqua in altum exilit.
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01383
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc0c483z74b
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1676.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1676
Extent
1 item ; sheet 57.6 x 45.3 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Depiction: Fountain. Cherub seated on lion, holding shield in left hand and saber in right hand. Lion biting fox.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre del et fc. 1676".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Dans le jardins de Versailles, par Martin Des Jardins, de Breda".
Signed in plate, lower right: "In hortis Versalianis, opus Martini Des Jardins Bredani".

Discovery Information

Subject
Fountains—France—Versailles—In art
Sculpture, Dutch—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/ee2b2bde-d593-467d-a03e-14698c1a78c9/manifest