Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 28, 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 prints illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs; engraved by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot and recorded by Populus under the title, "Les passions des hommes exprimées par des satyrs."
Numbered as plate 3 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: [column 1] Guerriers, si vous courez défendres vos murailles, / Partez, et s'il le faut brillez dans cent Batailles : / Mais, si vous ne voulez qu'errer en Conquerans, / Ne portez pasloin vos Projets éffraians, / [column 2] Qu'attendez vous du Sang que vous allez ré́pandre? / De nos champs désolez, de nos Villes cendre? / Fléaux de l'Univers, Heros, êtes-vous nez, / Pour ne faire icy-bas que des infortunez?
The Library owns Gillot's preliminary drawing for "La passion de la guerre" in the holdings of the Morgan's Dept. of Drawings and Prints (see 2001.6).
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 prints illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs; engraved by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot and recorded by Populus under the title, "Les passions des hommes exprimées par des satyrs."
Numbered as plate 3 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: [column 1] Guerriers, si vous courez défendres vos murailles, / Partez, et s'il le faut brillez dans cent Batailles : / Mais, si vous ne voulez qu'errer en Conquerans, / Ne portez pasloin vos Projets éffraians, / [column 2] Qu'attendez vous du Sang que vous allez ré́pandre? / De nos champs désolez, de nos Villes cendre? / Fléaux de l'Univers, Heros, êtes-vous nez, / Pour ne faire icy-bas que des infortunez?
The Library owns Gillot's preliminary drawing for "La passion de la guerre" in the holdings of the Morgan's Dept. of Drawings and Prints (see 2001.6).
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 364 mm; sheet: 233 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 in the foreground engaged in combat around a central figure of the god Mars, as, in the middle ground behind the statue of the god, satyrs playing a drum and trumpets trample the bodies of the vanquished; in the background, an audience of female satyrs looks on from behind a wicket fence.
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