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Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments) / Unknown artist [artwork]

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments) [artwork]

Title: Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments) [artwork]
Artist: Unknown artist
Genre: artwork
Date Created: 18th century
Physical Description: 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm.)
Artist notes: after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally published in a book compiled by Richard, or Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, draughtsman, etcher, and aquatinter, 1727-1791; printed by Hauer, rue S. Ursule, Paris
Artist nationality: Unknown
Original artist: Pâris, Pierre Adrien, 1745-1819
Inscription: Recto: top center: (in French) Differentes Antiques decouvertes a Herculanum conserves dans le / Museum de Portici pres de Naples ; u. r.: 3. ; l. r.: (in violet ink) [F. v Bonhorst?] ; bottom center: Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique / à Paris chez Hauer, rue S. Ursule ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Centen - Amsterdam / June 1934 / $1 00 ; center: (round black stamp) NASSAUISCHER ALTERTHUMS-VEREIN ZU WIESBADEN ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/659
Medium: Etching.
Condition: Good condition. Sheet trimmed unevenly.
Provenance: D. B. Centens Wetenschappelijke Boekhandel, Amsterdam, 26 June 1934. Hans Rothschild, formerly of Cologne, took over the antiquarian branch of Centens in Amsterdam as of 18 Feb. 1935.
Instrument: Sistrum, Cymbals, Tibia, Tambourine, Lyre (of sorts), Lyre (with tortoise shell body), Trigonon harp
Related names: Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809; Saint-Non, Jean-Claude Richard de, 1727-1791
Century: 18th century
Subject: Greek or Roman Instruments
Miller category: Instruments - - Plates
Miller ID: 0359/Z
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Last Updated: 07-07-2010

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