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

between 1637 and 1714

After Charles Le Brun , Artist Sébastien Le Clerc , Artist

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About the Artwork

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

Artwork Date between 1637 and 1714

Makers After Charles Le Brun (Artist) French, 1619-1690 Sébastien Le Clerc (Artist) French, 1637-1714

Medium Etching printed in black ink on laid ? paper

Dimensions 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)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S303.B

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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)

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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.