Le Sacrifice en l’honneur de Ceres. Peint dans la Gallerie de Son Altesse Royale Monsieur a St. Cloud. Sacrificium Deae Cereri. La Tabula depicta in Peristylio Seren. Principis Ducis Aurelix in Palatio S.ti Clodovaei.
Peint par P.M. grand excuyer j.er. Peintre du Roy.
Se vend a Paris chez N. de Poilly rue S.te Iacques a la belle Image C.P.R. [n.d. c.1696, but later.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 270 x 362mm. 10¾ x 14¼". Slight crease in centre
Summer: sacrifice to Ceres, with young women carrying a statue of the goddess and standing next to a tripod, at the bottom of which a man is sacrificing a pig. From a set of four plates reproducing the compositions designed by Mignard for the decoration of the chateau of Saint-Cloud, c.1677/80.
[Ref: 26572] £160.00
Se vend a Paris chez N. de Poilly rue S.te Iacques a la belle Image C.P.R. [n.d. c.1696, but later.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 270 x 362mm. 10¾ x 14¼". Slight crease in centre
Summer: sacrifice to Ceres, with young women carrying a statue of the goddess and standing next to a tripod, at the bottom of which a man is sacrificing a pig. From a set of four plates reproducing the compositions designed by Mignard for the decoration of the chateau of Saint-Cloud, c.1677/80.
[Ref: 26572] £160.00