print
- Museum number
- 1889,0318.11
- Title
- Object: Couronement de la Fontaine par Esope aux Champs Elisées
- Description
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French poet Jean de La Fontaine, lead by Phaedrus, is welcomed in Elysium by Aesop, who is presenting him with a laurel wreath; on the right, Virgil and Pliny conversing next to Petrarch and Laura, almost seen from behind; in the middle of the composition, sitting in the shade of the trees, Boccaccio and the Queen of Navarre; on the left, Charon on his boat, Spirits carrying La Fontaine's works, and various animals; coat of arms in lower margin. 1785
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1782-1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 313 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate started by Macret and finished by Guttenberg after the artist's death in 1783; a pair to 1873,0809.613 ?; another impression of the same state is kept in the German series under Guttenberg (1917,1208.169); for an earlier state, see1877,0811.838.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0318.11
