Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Etudes de chevaux de bataille blesses [7 prints] // Studies of horses wounded in battle [7 prints].
Call Number
E East 43/GC070/Box 02/Normal/17th c. GA 2024.01165
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6108vr050
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1647-1733
Extent
1 item ; sheet 34.3 x 44.5 cm. sheet 33.5 x 34.5 cm.
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.
References
Bartsch 44
Hollstein 44
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings
Depiction: Seven prints of horses lying on the ground.
Signed with monogram in plate, lower right: "V.HB. f." [each print].
Signed in plate, lower center: "F. Vander Meulen [or F.V.] Meulen, pinx, et ex. Cum privil Regis". [each print].
Item description: Believed to be seven of the ten studies related to Charles Le Brun's battle paintings from the series Etudes de chevaux de bataille blesses (Studies of Horses Wounded in Battle).

Discovery Information

Subject
Horses in art
Animals in art
Genre painting
Le Brun, Charles 1619-1690
Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner

Physical Characteristics

File Count
14

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cc7fde80-0911-4eb3-9822-377d1179e758/manifest