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Fontaines & Jardins avec sujets d'Histoire, tires de la Fable, Inventés & gravés par J. le Pautre. En Six Planches

Print
late 17th century - early 18th century (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mythological scene in a garden with a fountain. In the left foreground Narcissus, his bow cast aside and with a quiver of arrows over his shoulder, admires his refection as putti fly about him. On either side of the scene are putti with hounds. At the centre of the garden, in an alcove above the fountain, is a statue of a male figure, his torso bare; on each side are trees and plinths supporting urns.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFontaines & Jardins avec sujets d'Histoire, tires de la Fable, Inventés & gravés par J. le Pautre. En Six Planches (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on laid paper
Brief description
A mythological scene in a garden with a fountain, showing Narcissus admiring his reflection. One of six plates from the set 'Fontaines et Jardins avec Sujets d'histoire tirés de la fable'. Etching by Jean le Pautre, published late 17th-early 18th century.
Physical description
Mythological scene in a garden with a fountain. In the left foreground Narcissus, his bow cast aside and with a quiver of arrows over his shoulder, admires his refection as putti fly about him. On either side of the scene are putti with hounds. At the centre of the garden, in an alcove above the fountain, is a statue of a male figure, his torso bare; on each side are trees and plinths supporting urns.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 18.5cm
  • Cut to width: 28.2cm
Measured by SH 03/07/2010
Styles
Copy number
Pl. 3
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Narcisse apres avoir mesprisé plusieurs Nimphes don’t il estoit aimé pour sa beauté (et entrautres Echo) revenant un iour de la Chasse sapprocha d'une fontaine ou sestant apperceu il s'amourach a tellement de luy qui'l en seicha et fut Changé en une fleur de son nom. metam. l.3. I. Mariette ex cum Pri. re.' (Lettered)
  • 'le Paultre in et sculp.' (Lettered within the design)
  • '3' (Numbered)
Object history
In the reissued volume this set was entitled 'Fontaines et Jardins avec Sujets d'histoire tirés de la fable, inventés et gravés par J. le Pautre, en six planches' (Guilmard, p.74:95; Berlin, p.49:95). Although it is not clear whether they were actually published at the same time, numbers 29483:28-33 represent the complete set.
Production
The works of Jean le Pautre were reissued by Charles-Antoine Jombert under the title Oeuvres d’architecture, 3 vols (Paris,1751). These volumes contain a list of the reissued sets, and each are numbered. The majority of the title plates in each set are printed with the name of Jombert and the publication date of 1751; however, the other plates, like those in the original issues, are lettered with the names of the publishers Jean or Pierre Mariette. It is unclear whether this plate was published by Jean Mariette or reissued by Jombert.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, Desiré. Les Maitres Ornemanistes.: Écoles Françaises, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas. Paris: E. Plon, 1880, p.74: 95.
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1939. p.49: 95.
Collection
Accession number
29483:28

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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