Demy pilier avec les mesmes ornamens // [Half-pillar with the same ornaments]. - Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682 ([s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673)
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Depiction: Architectural detail of ornamental pillar with shell basin flanked by mermaid and merman, gargoyle head above; split down center.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps 1673".
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.
EXHIBITION.HISTORY: Firestone Main Gallery: Versailles on paper, 13 February to 19 July 2015
Location history: 1st Floor/Graphic Arts/Drawer G-06 // GC077
Keywords: Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- France -- Versailles -- In art; Columns -- France -- Versailles -- In art; Grottoes (Garden structures) -- France -- Versailles -- In art; Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- In art; Architecture -- Details -- 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; Bibliotheque nationale (France) -- Former owner; Print -- French -- 17th century