ID: 700001102 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001102	Record Type: Movable Work

[Tent of Darius] (engraving (print); Simon Gribelin II (French engraver, 1661-1733); published by...; Published: 1702; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 568456; (OCoLC)ocm80369243; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.14))

Note: Painting at the Musée du Louvre, Inv. 2896, en dépôt au musée de Versailles, MV 6165; Simon Gribelin, a Huguenot from Blois (France), left for England ca. 1680, where he was active for the remainder of his career as an engraver and draftsman; The engraving depicts the family of Darius kneeling before Alexander the Great, reproducing the painting known as the Tent of Darius by Charles Le Brun; The print is derived from Gérard Édelinck's engraving and was issued as the frontispiece to William Parsons's The Tent of Darius explain'd after André Félibien (cf. O'Connell); Forms part of the Leo Steinberg collection of prints (Special Collections accn. no. 2000.PR.16); Accompanied by Leo Steinberg's handwritten notes on mount and post-it concerning bibliography and series.

Titles:

[Tent of Darius] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

[Tent of Darius]; [graphic] / C: Le Brun pinxit ; S: Gribelin sculpsit 1693. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (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 print [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))

print (visual work) [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: 1702

Creator Display:

Simon Gribelin II (French engraver, 1661-1733); published by Warsons (English publisher, 18th century) [preferred,GRISC]

engraver (printmaker) Gribelin, Simon, II (French engraver, 1661-1733, active in England) [500007036]

publishers Warsons (English publisher, 18th century) [500353978]

Edelinck, Gérard (Flemish engraver, 1640-1707, active in France) [500115661]

Le Brun, Charles (French designer, painter, 1619-1690) [500016215]

Parsons, William (British publisher and chronologist, 1658-ca. 1725) [500353977]

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: 568456; (OCoLC)ocm80369243; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.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: London [7011781] Greater London (metropolitan area), England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving, b&w

	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>)

	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)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: plate mark 27.6 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 28.5 x 37.1 cm

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Alexander the Great (Macedonian king, 356-323 BCE) [500280655]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	campaigns [300069787]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events) (AAT)

	Darius III, King of Persia (Persian king, died 330 BCE) [500353980]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Darius III, King of Persia (Persian king, died 330 BCE) [500353980]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: stein purchase; Steinberg, Leo

Inscriptions: C: Le Brun pinxit ; S: Gribelin sculpsit 1693.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Tent of Darius]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 568456
[Tent of Darius]; [graphic] / C: Le Brun pinxit ; S: Gribelin sculpsit 1693.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Posner, D. "Charles Le Brun's Triumphs of Alexander," The Art Bulletin v. XLI/3, p. 237-248

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