Collection Priests Leading a Sacrificial Bull to the Temple of Apollo

Priests Leading a Sacrificial Bull to the Temple of Apollo

Claude Gellée, Artist François Vivarès, Artist François Vivarès, Publisher

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Priests Leading a Sacrificial Bull to the Temple of Apollo

1764

Claude Gellée (Artist) French, 1600-1682 François Vivarès (Artist) French, 1709-1780 François Vivarès (Publisher) 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)

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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1203

This work is in the public domain.

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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

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

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

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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.

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