Le Soleil qui se couche dans la mer, le globe de la Terre, divise en six parties // [The sun sets in the sea, the globe of the Earth is divided in six parts].

Engraver
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Description
1 item ; sheet 58.7 x 45.5 cm.

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status
Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2012.01387 A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles Browse related items Reading Room Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    [after] sculptor
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Notes
    • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
    • Depiction: Architectural detail of upper register, Apollo bas relief; below, globes separating continents.
    • 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: "sculpt ad parietem exteriorem cryptae Versalianae, opus Girardi Vanopstal Bruxellensis".
    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. 3
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