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Israël Silvestre
First day- Companions of the Four Seasons, with their suite of performers and bearers… (Premiere Journée - Comparse de Quatre Saisons, avec leur suitte…) (1664)
etching and engraving
27.5 × 41.5 cm (image) 27.7 × 42.0 cm (plate) 45.5 × 58.5 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
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Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
27.5 × 41.5 cm (image) 27.7 × 42.0 cm (plate) 45.5 × 58.5 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
Gallery location
Not on display
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Le Blanc 770; Faucheux 318.5 iii/iii; Preaud 918.5 iii/iii
Edition
3rd of 3 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l: Comparse des quatre saisons, avec leur suite de concertans, et porteurs/de presens, et la Machine de Pan, et de Diane, avec leur suitte de
printed in ink (in image) l.r.:Concertans, et de bergers portans les plats pendant le recit des uns/et des autres devant le Roy, et les Reynes
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Premiere Journée
printed in ink (in image) l.l.c.: Israel Silvestre. del, et sculp.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 5
Accession Number
p.183.76-1
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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