Pilier orne de coquillages et de rocailles, avec un bassin de marbre en forme de coquille // [Pillar decorated with shells and stones, with a marble basin shaped like a cockleshell].

Etcher
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Description
1 item ; sheet 58.8 x 45.7 cm.

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status
Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2012.01394 A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
    • Depiction: Architectural detail of ornamental pillar with shell basin flanked by mermaid and merman, gargoyle head above.
    • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1673".
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 11
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