Title(s)

De jonge Pyrrhus wordt gered

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2021-1347

Catalogue reference

• IFF 17e siècle 62
• LeBlanc 233

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240
• collector's mark: Lugt 1838

Artist

• print maker: Gérard Audran (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Nicolas Poussin (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Gérard Audran (mentioned on object)
• Lodewijk XIV (koning van Frankrijk) (mentioned on object)

Place

publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1650 - 1703

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

What

• servants save the infant Pyrrhus from the pursuit of the enemies of his father; when unable to cross a swollen river unaided they hurl a message tied either to a stone or a javelin across the water beseeching help

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• De jonge Pyrrhus wordt gered (linkerblad) (RP-P-OB-73.313)
• De jonge Pyrrhus wordt gered (rechterblad) (RP-P-OB-73.314)

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 1, p. 135, cat.nr. 62
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 1, p. 96, cat.nr. 233