Accession number
PML 145499, plate 049
Creator
Trière, Philippe, 1756-ca. 1815, engraver.
Published
[Paris : J. Couché, between 1789 and 1808]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
After an original painting later reattributed to Orazio Gentileschi, ca.1622. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 49, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Lettered below image on left: Peint par Dom Diego Velasquez; at center: Dessiné par Borel; at right: Gravé par Ph. Trière. Lettered at center below image: Loth et ses filles.; De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orleans.; A.P. D.R.; followed by 17 lines of descriptive text in French engraved below the the image; inscribed at bottom center, "Gal. Palais Royal."; at bottom right, "Niquet, femme L'Epine"; text and image enclosed within decorative border.
From: Galerie du Palais Royal : gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent / avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau par mr. l'abbé de Fontenai, dediée a S.A.S. monseigneur le duc d'Orleans, premier prince du sang, par J. Couché (Paris : J. Couché, 1786-1808); being a collection of 352 engravings after artwork in the collection of Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, comprising 3 volumes issued in parts between 1786 and 1808.
Library's copy has been cropped and trimmed, with loss of border and descriptive text.
After an original painting later reattributed to Orazio Gentileschi, ca.1622. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 49, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Lettered below image on left: Peint par Dom Diego Velasquez; at center: Dessiné par Borel; at right: Gravé par Ph. Trière. Lettered at center below image: Loth et ses filles.; De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orleans.; A.P. D.R.; followed by 17 lines of descriptive text in French engraved below the the image; inscribed at bottom center, "Gal. Palais Royal."; at bottom right, "Niquet, femme L'Epine"; text and image enclosed within decorative border.
From: Galerie du Palais Royal : gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent / avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau par mr. l'abbé de Fontenai, dediée a S.A.S. monseigneur le duc d'Orleans, premier prince du sang, par J. Couché (Paris : J. Couché, 1786-1808); being a collection of 352 engravings after artwork in the collection of Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, comprising 3 volumes issued in parts between 1786 and 1808.
Library's copy has been cropped and trimmed, with loss of border and descriptive text.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 159 x 208 mm; trimmed sheet: 194 x 214 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Shows Lot sleeping between his daughters; one of them points at the city of Sodom, burning in the background.
Classification
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