Veue de la face exterieure de la Grotte des Versailles // [View of the exterior face of the Versailles Grotto].

Engraver
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1672.
Description
1 item ; sheet 49 x 68 cm.

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status
Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2012.01386 A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Medium: Etchings, Engraving
    • Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1672".
    • Depiction: Architectural detail from façade of the grotto of Thetis with bas-reliefs of Apollo, tritons, cupids, and dolphins. Various figures standing in foreground.
    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. 2
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