Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 27, no. 1
Creator
Audran, Jean, 1667-1756, etcher, publisher.
Published
A Paris : Chez Audran graveur do Roy à l'Hotel Royal des Gobelins, 18th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
From a suite of four numbered satirical prints illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs; etched by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot.
Numbered as plate 1 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: Quelle divinité triomphe dans ce lieu? ... Mon or vous dit Plutus, ne s'obtient qu'à ce prix.
Sheet closely trimmed to plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
From a suite of four numbered satirical prints illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs; etched by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot.
Numbered as plate 1 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: Quelle divinité triomphe dans ce lieu? ... Mon or vous dit Plutus, ne s'obtient qu'à ce prix.
Sheet closely trimmed to plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 179 x 363 mm; sheet: 232 x 378 mm
Provenance
Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.
Summary
Print shows a group of satyrs and Bacchantes worshipping at an altar of Plutus, with a bust of the god at center
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