Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Trouppe de Triton et de Nereides, qui se rejouissent au coucher du Soleil // [Troop of Triton and Nereides, rejoicing at sunset].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01388
Identifier
ark:/88435/fx719v59z
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1673
Extent
1 item ; sheet 58.7 x 46 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: Architectural detail with six tritons blowing horns and playing tambourine.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1673".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Bas reliefs au dessus des portes de la Grotte de Versailles, par Girard Vanopstal de Bruxelles".
Signed in plate, lower right: "sculpti ad parietem exteriorem Cryptae Versalianae, opus Girardi Vanopstal Bruxellensis".

Discovery Information

Subject
Bas-relief—France—Versailles—In art
Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art
Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Palaces—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/a9a316b0-6c6b-4182-805d-1c11effb08e0/manifest