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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.2153
Title: Object: Le Parnasse François dédié au Roy
Description: The French Parnasse, dedicated to the King: rocky promontory with French poets and musician as the nine Muses, French poetesses as the Graces, and King Louis XV in the guise of Apollo at the top. c.1736 Engraving with some etching
Producer name: Print made by: Jean Audran; After: Louis Garnier; Published by: Jean Audran; Published by: La veuve Chéreau
School/style
Production date: 1736
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 793 millimetres; Width: 548 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The second version of a plate first executed in 1723; Audran reworked it (the pedestal was replaced by the rocky promontory) and the plate was advertised in 'Mercure', October 1736. Engraved after a sculpture by Louis Garnier now in the Musée de Versailles.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Louis XV, King of France and Navarre; Representation of: Madeleine de Scudéry; Representation of: Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières; Representation of: Henriette de Coligny, Countess of Suze; Representation of: Pierre Corneille; Representation of: Molière; Representation of: Jean Racine; Representation of: Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan; Representation of: Jean Baptiste Lully; Representation of: Jean Regnauld de Segrais; Representation of: Jean de La Fontaine; Representation of: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux; Representation of: Jean de la Chapelle; Representation of: Evrard Titon du Tillet
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.2153

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