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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.61.22
Title: Object: Les Muses, Clyo, Enterpe, et Thalie; Series: Les peintures de Charles le Brun et d'Eustache Le Sueur qui sont dans... la maison du Président Lambert
Description: Clio, Euterpe and Thalia, after the painting executed by Le Sueur for the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; the three Muses gathered beneath a clump of trees, with at left Clio holding a trumpet and holding a book, Thalia sitting at her feet and contemplating a mask, and Euterpe playing the flute. 1731 Etching finished with engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Claude Augustin Duflos; After: Eustache Le Sueur; Intermediary draughtsman: Bernard Picart; Published by: Gaspard Duchange
School/style
Production date: 1731
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 340 millimetres; Width: 319 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The first state of the plate bears the date '1731' in scratched lettering. For comment on series see 1917,1208.61.1. After a painting originally executed for the Cabinet des Muses in Hôtel Lambert, and now in the Louvre (inv. 8057). For comment on the painting see Mérot, 'Eustache le Sueur', 2000, cat. No.137.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (29.II); Dimier 1928 / Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle, histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres (441-479) (Picart; see)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical deity; musician
Associated names: Representation of: Clio; Representation of: Euterpe; Representation of: Thalia; Representation of: Hôtel Lambert
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Hôtel Lambert
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
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1917
Acquisition notes: Unidentified stamp on the first page of the album: the initials AP, within a circle surmounted by a knot; not in Lugt
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.61.22

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