France Crowned with Victory by Louis XIV

1690s(?)

François Verdier

Artist, French, 1651 - 1730

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [artist's working proof]

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38.4 × 252 cm (15 1/8 × 99 3/16 in.), cut within platemark

  • Accession

    2015.109.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, undesc

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

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: undesc

Inscriptions

on verso in graphite, possibly in the hand of Prosper de Baudicour: 1er état avant l'inscription au bas de la tapisserie / avan tle nom de Verdier sur la faux du Temps / épreuve unique, avant la tête de l'amour à droite terminé (rarissime); by later hand, upper left verso in brown ink: S9

Wikidata ID

Q77015664

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