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The Cour du Cheval Blanc at Fontainebleau

Israël Silvestre (French, 1621–1691)
Published by: Chalcographie du Louvre
1667

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 45 × 59.8 cm (17 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 37.5 × 49.8 cm (14 3/4 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Charles Sumner
Accession NumberM29
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Faucheux 216(28); Le Blanc 581
DescriptionThe inscriptions on this impression do not match those described by Faucheux or Le Blanc for any of the three states. This impression is dated 1667, but is published by the Chalcographie du Louvre.
Marks Recto, bottom center, the blindstamp of the Chalcographie du Louvre (Lugt 1695); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
InscriptionsEngraved in the lower margin, "Veüe de la Cour du Cheual blanc de Fontainebleau - Prospectus Areae Equi albi, Fontis-bellaquei / Israel Silvestre delin. et Sculpsit 1667."
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 4/27/1874