Fontein met Venus en Amor, anonymous, after Jean Lepautre, 1688 - 1698

Title(s)

Fontein met Venus en Amor

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1939-885

Catalogue reference

• Orn Cat II 2076

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Fontein met Venus en Amor staande op een ornamentele sokkel. Venus draagt het waterbekken.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after design by: Jean Lepautre
• Johan Teyler

Place

Netherlands

Dating

1688 - 1698

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving / à la poupée

Measurements

height 263 mm × width 187 mm

What

• garden fountain
• fountain of Love, 'Fons Amoris'
• Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Credit line

• F.G. Waller Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1939

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• AC-00054721object | reproductionobject | reproductieRP38638 18x24RM0001.COLLECT.1500054720

• Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II, Peter Fuhring, dl. 1, p. 354, cat.nr. 2076
• Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Ulrich Thieme, dl. 32, p. 574, cat.nr. 99