Aurora, Gérard Audran, after Eustache Lesueur, 1650 - 1703

Title(s)

Aurora
Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2017-8951

Catalogue reference

• Robert-Dumesnil 45-2(2)
• IFF 17e siècle 53

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Gérard Audran (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Eustache Lesueur (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Audran (mentioned on object)
• Franse kroon (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris

Dating

1650 - 1703

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 248 mm × width 163 mm

What

• triumph of Aurora: in her chariot drawn by two (sometimes four) horses, and possibly scattering flowers; Aurora's victory over the night; 'Carro dell'Aurora' (Ripa)

Acquisition

unknown 2017

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 1, p. 133, cat.nr. 53
• Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française : ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch, dl. 9, p. 273, cat.nr. 45