Minerva kroont het wapenschild van de hertog van Orléans, Louis Simon Lempereur, after Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen, 1754 - 1770

Title(s)

Minerva kroont het wapenschild van de hertog van Orléans

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-69.285

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 20bis

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Louis Simon Lempereur (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Pierre-Guillaume Simon

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris

Dating

1754 - 1770

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 100 mm × width 145 mm

What

• (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena)
• crown (symbol of sovereignty)
• armorial bearing, heraldry
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 14, p. 262, cat.nr. 20bis