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.
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
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
- Soldiers
- Etching (printing process)
- Ink
- Laid paper
- Etching
- Battle
- Military, the
- France
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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.