ID: 700000989 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000989	Record Type: Movable Work

La galerie des femmes fortes (etchings (prints); engraved by Gilles Rousselet and etched by Abraham Bosse, af...; published between 1640 and 164...; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 828881; accession number: 2009.PR.14*)

Note: Title leaf engraved by Karl Audran from a drawing by Pietro da Cortona shows a statue of Anne of Austria crowned by an angel and surrounded by allegorical figures. Also issued in: Le Moyne, Pierre. La gallerie des femmes fortes. Paris : A. de Dommaville, 1647; "Vignon inuent. AEgid. Rousselet et ABosse sculpserunt. Mariette excudit. Cum priuilegio Regis et Regine Regentis."--plate 2; Leaves numbered 1-21; The suite of prints was engraved by Gilles Rousselet and etched by Abraham Bosse after designs by Claude Vignon; Contemporary leather binding, colored pastedowns, spine tooled and stamped in gilt: VIGNO; Bound with: Rousselet, Gilles. Les sept merveilles du monde. Paris : Pierre Mariette, [ca. 1639-1640] (accn. no. 2009.PR.15*). Couvay, Jean. Les sept sages de la Grèce. Paris: Pierre Mariette, [ca. 1640-47] (accn. no. 2009.PR.16*). Publication: [Paris] : Mariette excudit, [between 1640 and 1647?].

Titles:

La galerie des femmes fortes (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Gallery of strong women: Images of heroic and virtuous women (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: suite

Work Types:

etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive prints [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

engravings (prints) [300041340]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published between 1640 and 1647?

Creator Display:

engraved by Gilles Rousselet and etched by Abraham Bosse, after designs by Claude Vignon; published: Mariette excudit; title leaf engraved by Karl Audran from a drawing by Pietro da Cortona [preferred,GRISC]

engraver (printmaker) Rousselet, Gilles (French printmaker, 1610-1686) [500027369]

publishers Mariette, Pierre, I (French dealer, publisher, and printmaker, 1596-1657) [500067584]

engraver (printmaker) Audran, Charles (French engraver and draftsman, 1594-1674) [500017800]

etcher Bosse, Abraham (French printmaker, 1602-1676) [500031187]

draftsman Cortona, Pietro da (Italian painter, architect, 1596-1669) Qualifier: after [500115154]

delineator Vignon, Claude (French painter and printmaker, 1593-1670) [500008549]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 828881; accession number: 2009.PR.14*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 21 leaves of plates: engraving, etching, b&w; contemporary leather binding, colored pastedowns, spine tooled and stamped in gilt: VIGNO

	leaves (gathered matter) [300115833]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components)

	plates (illustrations) [300189216]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, layout features, <images and ornament for layout features>, illustrations (layout features), <illustrations by form>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate marks 34.2 x 22.5 cm, on sheets 41 x 28 cm; 21 leaves of plates

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

history and legend

portraits

another work

Specific Subjects:

	heroines [300236808]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by state or condition>) (AAT)

	biography (literary genre) [300080102]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	Anne, Queen consort of Louis XIII (French queen consort, 1601-1666) [500354215]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	angels (spirits) [300379004]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)

Provenance: halwa; Purchase.

Inscriptions: La galerie des femmes fortes Vignon inuent. ; AEgid. Rousselet et ABosse sculpserunt. Stamped in gilt: VIGNO.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
La galerie des femmes fortes	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 828881
Gallery of strong women: Images of heroic and virtuous women	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)