About the Artwork
Aurora
between 1619 and 1690
Charles Le Brun (Artist) French, 1619-1690 P. Mariette le fils (Publisher) French
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 7 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (18.4 × 23.5 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S192.1
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left: Le Brun in fecit
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: P. Mariette le fils excud. Inscribed, lower right center: Cum Priuil. Regis Inscribed, upper left corner: AVRORA Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [illegible notations]
Provenance
October 1887, 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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Jouin. Les arts sous Louis XIV. 1899, p. 81.
Le Brun. Chateau de Versailles. 1963, nos. 53-56 (ill.).
Le Blanc, C. Manuel de L'amateur d'estampes. Amsterdam, 1971, no. 4-7.
Baroque Prints: Innovation and Exploration. Exh. cat., Calvin College Center Art Gallery, Calvin University. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1983, no. 57.
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Charles Le Brun, Aurora, between 1619 and 1690, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S192.1.
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