Details

Subject(s)

• Bas-relief—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art [Browse]
• Palaces—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Description de la grotte de Versailles—Illustrations [Browse]
• Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner [Browse]

[after] sculptor

• Opstal, Gerard van, born 1594 or 1604, died 1668 [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Engravings
• Depiction: Architectural detail with two circular registers, putti on dolphins in water.
• 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".

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. 6

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