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Object Type
Museum number: Nn,7.51.g
Title: Series: Galerie des peintures qui sont dans la salle du bal à Fontainebleau
Description: Pendentive flanked by two semi-arches and decorated with scene representing Eris throwing the apple of discord onto the table during the wedding of Thetis and Peleus Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Alexandre Betou; After: Francesco Primaticcio
School/style
Production date: 1622-1693
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 207 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 354 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Plate 6 from a series of fifteen, see 1835,0711.72.a for comment.
Bibliographic references: Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français (VIII.229.6); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (6)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: interior; palace/mansion; classical mythology; marriage/wedding; classical deity; allegory/personification
Associated names: Representation of: Thetis; Representation of: Peleus; Representation of: Eris
Associated places: Associated with: Château de Fontainebleau
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev Dr Charles Sloman; Purchased through: Wheatley's (20.vi.1835, bt Ottley)
Acquisition date: 1835
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Nn,7.51.g
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1835,0711.72.g

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