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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 |
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>) |
prints (preferred) |
Creation Date: published 1 October 1886 |
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 |
literary (preferred) |
allegory |
animals |
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-) | |
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