Priests Leading a Sacrificial Bull to the Temple of Apollo, 1764

  • Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682
  • François Vivarès, French, 1709-1780
  • François Vivarès, French, 1709-1780

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 19 3/8 × 23 5/8 inches (49.2 × 60 cm) Sheet: 19 5/8 × 24 7/8 inches (49.8 × 63.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1203

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Francis (sic) Vivares Sculpsit. Inscribed, lower left: Claud Lorrain pinxit. Inscribed, center left: In the Pamphili Palace at Rome. | The Great Annual Sacrifice at the Temple of Apollo in the Island of Delos.This Temple stood at the entrance of a City, built entirely of Granite & Marble, by Erisichton, son of Cecrops, first King of Athens: & was afterwards enrich'd by the Greeks, to the admiration of all antiquity. Inscribed, center right: Dans le Palais Pamfili a Rome. | followed by French counterpart to English inscription quoted above Inscribed, center lower edge of plate: Published by F. Vivares June 20th, 1764. 6 feet 6 Inchs. wide, 4 feet 11 Inchs. high. Inscribed, lower left corner of plate: No. 25

May 1886, Bangs sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

François Vivarès; after Claude Gellée, Priests Leading a Sacrificial Bull to the Temple of Apollo, 1764, etching and engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1203.