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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,0611.39
Title: Object: Solon; Series: Les Sept sages de la Grèce
Description: Solon, standing full-length in the foreground, turned to the left, holding a skull with his left arm; vases and coins at his feet; in the background, at right, Croesus showing his riches to Solon; after Vignon. c.1639/40 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Jean Couvay; Print made by: Abraham Bosse; After: Claude Vignon; Published by: Pierre Mariette I
School/style
Production date: 1639-1640 (circa)
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 360 millimetres; Width: 217 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: From a series of seven plates representing the Seven Wise Men of Greece. The plates were engraved by Couvay (figures; Duplessis attributes them, erroneously, to Rousselet) and Bosse (background). See Bassani, 'Claude Vignon', 1992, pp.360-364, where the set is dated c.1639/40.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (66) (Couvay); Blum 1924 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse (1466); Duplessis 1859 / Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Abraham Bosse (1461); Lothe 2008 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse graveur parisien du XVIIe siècle (101)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Solon; Representation of: Croesus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1894,0611.39

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