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ID: 700001192
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001192
Record Type: Movable Work
L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf (etching (print); Gérard Scotin (French engraver, 1643-1715); Henri Bonnart...; Published: 1600s; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2596-002; 596002; accession number: 2003.PR.136*;)
Note: "Cet homme chamarre de paille / Par ses grimaces et son chant, / Excroque a la sotte canaille / De quoy rire et boire d'autant" --engraved in the plate's lower margin; The signature in the lower left corner of the image may be that of Gérard Scotin, son of the sculptor Pierre Scotin and father of several printmakers including Gérard-Jean-Baptiste Scotin (1671-1716) (cf. Portalis/Béraldi, t. 3, p. 534); A representation of a figure standing on a platform holding a book, next to a pole with a placard bearing the caption: "Chansons / Ie suis la fleur ...". The etching was issued by the publisher Henri Bonnart, who was established on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris at the sign of Le Coq; Portion of watermark: coat of arms [?] with fleur-de-lys. Publication: [Paris] : H. Bonnart, ex au Coq avec priuil., [16--].
Titles:
L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)
Straw man Apollo of the Pont Neuf (C,U,DE,English,U,U)
L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf; [graphic] / G. Scotin f. (C,U,undetermined,,)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
etching (print) [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)
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: 1600s

Creator Display:
Gérard Scotin (French engraver, 1643-1715); Henri Bonnart (French painter and engraver, ca. 1642-1711) [preferred,GRISC]
etcher Scotin, G. (French engraver, 1643-1715) Qualifier: possibly by [500354369]
publisher Bonnart, Henri (French painter and engraver, ca. 1642-1711) [500106536]
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: 2596-002; 596002; accession number: 2003.PR.136*
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: Département de Ville-de-Paris [7002980] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: 1 print: etching
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 mark 15.5 x 11 cm, on sheet 20.5 x 14.5 cm
General Subject:
human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
Pont-Neuf [700001135]
.....(Pont-Neuf [700001135], Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, and engineering works [700009566], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)
placard (information artifact) [300202423]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>, <declaratory and advertising artifacts>) (AAT)

Provenance: Mario Lanfranchi London purchase
Watermarks: Portion of watermark: coat of arms [?] with fleur-de-lys
Inscriptions: L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf G. Scotin f. "Cet homme chamarre de paille / Par ses grimaces et son chant, / Excroque a la sotte canaille / De quoy rire et boire d'autant" --engraved in the plate's lower margin;
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf........ [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 596002
Straw man Apollo of the Pont Neuf........ [VP]
........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
L'homme de paille Apollon du Pont Neuf; [graphic] / G. Scotin f......... [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
....................... Weigert, R.-A. Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-septième siècle t. 1, p. 413, no. 445
Note:
English ..... [GRISC,VP]
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
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