Alexander's First Victory over the Persians on the Banks of the Grancis

Alexander's First Victory over the Persians on the Banks of the Grancis, between 1637 and 1714

Charles Le Brun, French, 1619-1690
Sébastien Le Clerc, French, 1637-1714

Etching printed in black ink on laid ? paper

Framed: Plate: 5 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (14 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (15.9 × 26.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S303.B

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Soldiers
Etching (printing process)
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Laid paper
Etching
Battle
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France

Signed, Marks, Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: LA VERTU SURMONTE TOUT OBSTACLE. | Alexandre ayant passe le Granique, attaque les Perses à forces | inégales, et met en suite leur innombrable multitude Inscribed, lower right: VIRTUS OMNI OBICE MAJOR. | Alexander superato Granico, Persas imparibus copiis aggreditur | eorumque innumerabilem exericitum sundit. Inscribed, lower left edge of plate: A Paris chez N. Langlois rue St. Jacques a la Victoire Inscribed, lower right: Avec Privilege du Roy.

Provenance

September 1899, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany); Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA); 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Rights Status

Sébastien Le Clerc; after Charles Le Brun, Alexander's First Victory over the Persians on the Banks of the Grancis, between 1637 and 1714, etching printed in black ink on laid ? paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S303.B.