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Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments) / Unknown artist [artwork]
- Title
- Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments) [artwork]
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date Created
- 18th century
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm.)
- Artist notes
- after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally published in a book compiled by Richard, or Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, draughtsman, etcher, and aquatinter, 1727-1791; printed by Hauer, rue S. Ursule, Paris
- Artist nationality
- Unknown
- Original artist
- Pâris, Pierre Adrien, 1745-1819
- Inscription
- Recto: top center: (in French) Differentes Antiques decouvertes a Herculanum conserves dans le / Museum de Portici pres de Naples ; u. r.: 3. ; l. r.: (in violet ink) [F. v Bonhorst?] ; bottom center: Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique / à Paris chez Hauer, rue S. Ursule ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Centen - Amsterdam / June 1934 / $1 00 ; center: (round black stamp) NASSAUISCHER ALTERTHUMS-VEREIN ZU WIESBADEN ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/659
- Medium
- Etching.
- Condition
- Good condition. Sheet trimmed unevenly.
- Provenance
- D. B. Centens Wetenschappelijke Boekhandel, Amsterdam, 26 June 1934. Hans Rothschild, formerly of Cologne, took over the antiquarian branch of Centens in Amsterdam as of 18 Feb. 1935.
- Instrument
- Sistrum, Cymbals, Tibia, Tambourine, Lyre (of sorts), Lyre (with tortoise shell body), Trigonon harp
- Related names
- Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809; Saint-Non, Jean-Claude Richard de, 1727-1791
- Century
- 18th century
- Subject
- Greek or Roman Instruments
- Miller category
- Instruments - - Plates
- Miller ID
- 0359/Z
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014