ID: 700001382 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001382	Record Type: Movable Work

Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744 (etching (print); François Noël Sellier (etcher, b. 1737); Published: 1772; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2645-954; 645954; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 968); )

Note: Seven-line inscription in the lower margin: ... / Cette fête represente le Temple de la Santé ... / ARTIVM ACADEMIA; Inscribed in the lower left corner of the plate: Remise au Jour en 1772. par Mr. Dumont, ancien Pensionnaire de ce temps; The festival presumably involved the collaboration of the following students at the Académie: Gabriel-Pierre-Martin Dumont for the design of the architecture; Jacques-François-Joseph Saly, Louis-Claude Vassé, François-Gaspard-Balthasar Adam, and Pierre-Philippe Mignot for the sculptural displays; and Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain and Charles-Michel-Ange Challe for the painted embellishments; French printmaker active in Paris; The print depicts the ephemeral displays prepared by the pensionnaires of the Académie de France in Rome in celebration of the convalescence of King Louis XV of France in 1744; A sculptural group representing Asclepius and Hygieia, protective deities of medicine and health, is shown in a courtyard, flanked by altars with burning incense. The god and goddess lead Louis XV to a personification of France. Above the group appear the arms of France, embedded in a sun, and supported by Fame and Immortality; The print, issued several decades after the festivities were held in Rome, was initiated by the French draftsman and architect Gabriel-Pierre-Martin Dumont, who won the Prix de Rome in 1737 and was a pensionnaire at the Académie de France in Rome from 1742 to 1746; Watermark: cross; Forms part of the Collection of festival prints, 1530-1887 (Special Collections accn. no. P910002**). 1772

Titles:

Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744 (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Ephemeral displays for the pensionnaires of the Académie de France in Rome in celebration of the convalescence of King Louis XV of France in 1744 (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744; [graphic] / Sellier sculp. (C,U,French,U,U)

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: 1772

Creator Display:

François Noël Sellier (etcher, b. 1737) [preferred,GRISC]

Sellier, François Nöel (French engraver, born 1737) [500056412]

Adam, François Gaspard Balthasar (French sculptor, 1710-1761) [500020749]

Challes, Charles-Michel-Ange (French painter, draftsman, and teacher, 1718-1778) [500115747]

Dumont, Pierre-Martin (French draftsman and architect, 1720-1791) [500029596]

Le Lorrain, Louis-Joseph (French painter and printmaker, 1715-1759, active in Russia) [500031999]

Mignot, Pierre Philippe (French sculptor, 1715-1770) [500297723]

Saly, Jacques-François-Joseph (French sculptor, 1717-1776) [500023466]

Vassé, Louis-Claude (French sculptor and designer, 1716-1772) [500026601]

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: 2645-954; 645954; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 968)

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

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 28 x 39.2 cm, on sheet 36.9 x 49.5 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

events

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Louis XV, King of France (French king, 1710-1774) [500122354]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Académie de France (Italian academy, Rome, contemporary) [500310990]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Aesculapius [901000305]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Hygieia [901000306]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	festivals (celebrations) [300073472]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, celebrations) (AAT)

	depictions (visual works) [300248231]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

Provenance: xxx

Watermarks: cross

Inscriptions: Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744 Sellier sculp.; Seven-line inscription in the lower margin: ... / Cette fête represente le Temple de la Santé ... / ARTIVM ACADEMIA.; Inscribed in the lower left corner of the plate: Remise au Jour en 1772. par Mr. Dumont, ancien Pensionnaire de ce temps

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 645954
Ephemeral displays for the pensionnaires of the Académie de France in Rome in celebration of the convalescence of King Louis XV of France in 1744	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Vüe perspective de la fête composée, et donnée par m.rs les pensionaires. de l'Academie royale à Rome en réjouissance du rétablissement de la santé du roy. lan 1744; [graphic] / Sellier sculp.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Wunder, R. P. "A forgotten French festival in Rome," Apollo, May 1967 p. 354-359

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