Moses and the Brazen Serpent - Engraving by L. Audran after Le Brun - c. 1710
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Original large-format French engraving, horizontal in format: Moses and the Brazen Serpent, with the people of Israel bitten by the fiery serpents (Numbers XXI). A broad burin and a very crisp impression, with the long explanatory text in French below.
Original large-format French engraving, horizontal in format: Moses and the Brazen Serpent, with the people of Israel bitten by the fiery serpents (Numbers XXI). A broad burin and a very crisp impression, with the long explanatory text in French below.
It reproduces a composition by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), first painter to Louis XIV, who treated the subject in two versions, one of which also served as the model for a Gobelins tapestry. Engraved by Louis Audran, of the great dynasty of engravers from Lyon, and published in Paris by the widow Audran, in the rue Saint-Jacques.
Medium: Copper engraving.
Artist / after: Charles Le Brun (1619-1690).
Engraver: Louis Audran (Lyon, 1670 - Paris, 1712).
Date: c. 1703-1712.
Source: Paris, "chez la Veuve Audran, rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'or".
Dimensions: Image 10.0 x 13.8 in (25.5 x 35 cm).
Condition: Crisp, clean impression; sheet trimmed to the plate mark, without margins.
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Original large-format French engraving, horizontal in format: Moses and the Brazen Serpent, with the people of Israel bitten by the fiery serpents (Numbers XXI). A broad burin and a very crisp impression, with the long explanatory text in French below.