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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G101
People
Gérard Audran, French (1640 - 1703)
After Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Title
Passage of the Granicus
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Battles of Alexander
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1672
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276392

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 78.8 x 152.5 cm (31 x 60 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: [string of capital letters] 8
  • collector's mark: sheet 1, verso: circle with "Dr. WA Pr" in black ink [Lugt 791, Dr. W. A. Ackermann]
  • collector's mark: sheet 2, verso: circle with "Dr. WA Pr" in black ink [Lugt 791, Dr. W. A. Ackermann]
  • collector's mark: sheet 3, verso: circle with "Dr. WA Pr" in black ink [Lugt 791, Dr. W. A. Ackermann]
  • collector's mark: sheet 4, verso: circle with "Dr. WA Pr" in black ink [Lugt 791, Dr. W. A. Ackermann]
  • collector's mark: sheet 1, verso: shield with "D M F" over it in blue ink [Lugt 778, H. F. de la Motte-Fouquet]
  • collector's mark: sheet 2, verso: shield with "D M F" over it in blue ink [Lugt 778, H. F. de la Motte-Fouquet]
  • collector's mark: sheet 4, verso: shield with "D M F" over it in blue ink [Lugt 778, H. F. de la Motte-Fouquet]
  • inscription: sheet 1, part of plate; to the right of the verses: Goyton, dots in black ink
  • inscription: sheet 4, part of plate; at the end of the verses: Goyton. in black dots
  • inscription: sheet 4, below image: Goyton, in reverse, in black dots, scratched out

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann, Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791), sold [through Weigel, Leipzig, June 25, 1844, lot 1547]. Heinrich Friedrich de la Motte-Fouquet, Cologne (Lugt 778), sold [through Hôtel du Dôme, Cologne, October 21 and 22, 1847, lot 166]. Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray (his nephew), 1856; gift; to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii
Standard Reference Number
M. 88a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Four sheets, unattached.

Publication History

  • A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, checklist, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2015), pp. 146-147, repr. as cat. 42 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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