Object types
print (all objects)
Title (object)
Pictura
Materials
paper (all objects)
Techniques
etching (scope note | all objects)
Production person
After Sébastien Bourdon (biographical details | all objects)
Published by Pierre Drevet (biographical details | all objects)
Print made by Jacques Fricquet de Vauroze (biographical details | all objects)
Production place
Published in Paris (all objects)
Date
1663-1716
Schools /Styles
French (all objects)
Description
Plate 1: Painting, after Bourdon; Apelles, seated at his easel at right, and painting a portrait of Campaspe, who sits on the left, with Alexander the Great standing beside her; within circle; second state, with horizontal lines added to the sides and with Drevet's address
Etching
Inscriptions
Inscription Language:
Inscription Content: Numbered on plate; lettered with production and publication detail: 'S. Bourdon inven.', 'Drevet ex.', 'A Paris chez P. Drevet rue S. Jacques a l'Annonciation', title, and quotation in Latin: 'Amicam Alexandri Campaspem...' (Pliny XXXV 10).
Dimensions
Height: 316 millimetres
Width: 295 millimetres
Curator's comments
From a series of seven plates representing the Liberal Arts and the Virtues, and reproducing the decoration designed by Bourdon at the Hôtel de Bretonvilliers (1663). The original paintings are now lost.
Four states are known: first state, with Fricquet's address and with the border left blank; second state, with Drevet's address and the borders filled with horizontal lines; third state, with Surugue's address; fourth state, modern impression.
See Jacques Thuillier, 'Sébastien Bourdon 1616-1671', Paris 2000, pp.406-407.
Also see set reproducing the Seven Virtues (1854,0513.191).
Subject
arts and sciences (scope note | all objects)
ancient history (scope note | all objects)
Associated names
Representation of Alexander III Megas, Macedon (biographical details | all objects)
Representation of Campaspe (biographical details | all objects)
Representation of Apelles (biographical details | all objects)
Associated places
Associated with Paris (Hotel de Bretonvilliers) (all objects)
Acquisition date
1854
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