Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Le Soleil apres avoir acheve son cours descend chez Thetis, ou six de ses Nymphes sont occupees a le Servir, & a luy offrir toutes sortes de rafraichissemens. // [The Sun, having completed its course, descends by Thetis, where six of her nymphs are serving her all sorts of refreshments.]
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2013.00210
Identifier
ark:/88435/vd66w7011
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1678.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1678
Extent
1 item ; sheet 52.7 x 60.3 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
Depiction: Six nymphs attending to the Sun after it descends.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Joannes Edelinck sculpsit. 1678".

Discovery Information

Subject
Nymphs (Greek deities) in art
Sun—In art
Goddesses, Greek, in art
Sculpture—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
Palaces—France—Versailles—In art
Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Description de la grotte de Versailles—Illustrations
Personification in art
Sculpture, French—17th century—In art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
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/49ec9924-d022-4f51-89a5-ca94b7b57485/manifest