The Elderly Silenus

1650s

Nicolas Chapron

Artist, French, 1612 - c. 1656

Basan

Publisher, French

Nicolas Chapron

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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 Number

    2005.127.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Associated Artworks

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Recueil de Douze Bacchanales

Michel Dorigny, Nicolas Chapron, Basan, Nicolas Cochin

1617

Bacchante with Sleeping Child

Basan, Michel Dorigny

1617

Drunken Silenus

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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