Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Grouppe de marbre blanc representant deux chevaux du soleil, et deux Tritons qui les pensent - dans la Grotte de Versailles.
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01398
Identifier
ark:/88435/1v53k511p
Publisher
[Paris : [s.n.], 1675.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1675
Extent
1 item ; sheet 65.8 x 49 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 Gaspar et Balthazar de Marcy, de Cambray - Opus Gasparis et Balthazaris de Marcy, Cameracensium".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Stephanus Picart Romus sculpsit 1675".

Discovery Information

Subject
Animals in art
Horses in art
Mermen in art
Mythology, Greek, in art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Sculpture—France—Versailles—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/e0f60f3e-ae5d-4388-9ef4-165e72a04821/manifest