ID: 700000417 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000417	Record Type: Movable Work

[La teste et la queüe du serpent] (etching (print); Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914), based on a watercolor by Gu...; published 1 October 1886; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 532519; accession number: 2000.PR.3**;)

Note: Title from Laran; French printmaker, designer, painter, and writer; The print depicts the fable La tête et la queue du serpent or The head and the tail of the serpent by Jean de La Fontaine. It is based on a watercolor by Gustave Moreau from his series called Les fables de La Fontaine. A serpent is depicted rising on the shore of the Stygian Lake, while human souls fall into the dark waters of the lake, to be carried over to hell.

Titles:

[La teste et la queüe du serpent] (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Head and the tail of the serpent (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Fable of the head and tail of the serpent, with the serpent rising on the shore of the Stygian Lake (C,U,DE,English,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)

drypoint (print) [300041349]

..... (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, engravings (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 1 October 1886

Creator Display:

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914), based on a watercolor by Gustave Moreau; published by Boussod, Valadon & Co. ... [preferred,GRISC]

publishers Boussod, Valadon & Cie (French firm of art dealers, 1884-1919) [500314808]

artist Moreau, Gustave (French painter, 1826-1898) Qualifier: after Extent: work depicted [500115776]

author La Fontaine, Jean de (French poet, 1621-1695) [500258332]

printmaker Bracquemond, Félix (French painter, etcher, and ceramicist, 1833-1914) [500023048]

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: 532519; accession number: 2000.PR.3**

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: etching, drypoint

	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>)

	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)

	drypoint (printing process) [300053228]
	.......(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, engraving (printing process))

Dimensions: image 28.7 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 42.4 x 29.9 cm

General Subject:

literary (preferred)

allegory

animals

Specific Subjects:

	Head and the Tail of the Serpent [901000147]
	.....((Fables, Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.), Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	snake (suborder) [300250870]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Reptilia (class), Squamata (order)) (AAT)

	hell (doctrinal concept) [300185657]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <religions and religious concepts>, religious concepts, doctrinal concepts) (AAT)

	La Fontaine, Jean de (French poet, 1621-1695) [500258332]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	fables [300055917]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Gustave Moreau ; Bracquemond. "October 1st, 1886, London, Published by Boussod, Valadon & Co., successors to Goupil & Co., 116 & 117, New Bond Street W. and 9 rue Chaptal, Paris, Copyright registered"--inscribed above image.; Signed by Braquemond in pencil below the image.

Marks: Embossed oval seal in the lower left corner with the initials EO.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[La teste et la queüe du serpent]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 532519
Head and the tail of the serpent	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Fable of the head and tail of the serpent, with the serpent rising on the shore of the Stygian Lake	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

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

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

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