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Object Type
print
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
French
Production date
1731
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
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
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey and 5th Baron Lucas
(ex-libris)
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