Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
La medecine. Esculape eloigne la mort. // [Medicine. Aesculapius drives away death.].
Call Number
E East 46/GC077/Box 10/Normal/18th c./Artists H-Le GA 2012.00257
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctt44q119q
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1700s]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1700
Extent
1 item ; sheet 40.5 x 28.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of William H. Helfand. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Depiction: Tableau with a putto holding a book and the Staff of Aesculapius, facing away from viewer toward hovering personification of death. The putto is standing on a mantle between a human corpse and medical supplies. Below is a bust portrait of [Camille la Lionet?].
Provenance: Formerly part of the Pierre Julien collection.
Signed in plate, lower left: "C. Marillier inv.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Le Roy sculp.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Death (Personification)—In art
Skeleton in art
Medicine in art
Cherubs (Art)
Staff of Aesculapius in art
Personification 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/a994d7c7-3339-47fa-af1b-9c9246645bf0/manifest