The Elderly Silenus

1650s

Nicolas Chapron

Artist, French, 1612 - c. 1656

Basan

Publisher, French

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.5 x 16.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 38.5 x 26.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.127.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 56, State iii/iii

Associated Artworks

See all 12 artworks

Bacchante with Sleeping Child

Basan, Michel Dorigny

1617

Drunken Silenus

Michel Dorigny, Basan

1617

Seated Bacchante with Children

Michel Dorigny, Basan

1617

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: 3; lower right in plate: Chapron / In. et sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q76349200

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