Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Grouppe de marbre blanc, representant deux chevaux du soleil, et deux Tritons qui les pensent // [White marble scene, representing two horses of the sun, and two Tritons thinking of them].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01399
Identifier
ark:/88435/9c67wv945
Publisher
[Paris : [s.n.], 1676.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1676
Extent
1 item ; sheet 66.7 x 49.5 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.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Signed in plate, below: "Par Gilles Guerin Parisien // Dans la Grotte de Versailles" and lower right, "Opus Aegidii Guerin Parisini // In Crypta Versaliana".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Stephanus Baudet sculp. 1676".

Discovery Information

Subject
Animals in art
Horses in art
Mermen in art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Sculpture—France—Versailles—In art
Mythology, Greek, in art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Palaces—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Description de la grotte de Versailles—Illustrations
Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/327541b7-c534-41a9-8f05-c3079c7a7f11/manifest