ID: 700000599 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000599	Record Type: Movable Work

[Alexander and Apelles] (etching (print); Norblin de La Gourdaine, Jean-Pierre (etcher, 1745-1830), af...; Published: 1774; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 695742; accession number: 2006.PR.21**)

Note: Devised title; French painter, draftsman and printmaker, active in Poland between 1774 and 1804; The print after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich shows Alexander the Great visiting the studio of Apelles and looking at a battle scene displayed on an easel. Publication: 1774.

Titles:

[Alexander and Apelles] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Alexandre et Apelles (C,U,French,U,U)

Alexander the Great in the Studio of Apelles (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)

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>)

reproductive prints [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1774

Creator Display:

Norblin de La Gourdaine, Jean-Pierre (etcher, 1745-1830), after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Norblin, Jean Pierre (French painter and printmaker, 1745-1830) [500031481]

artist Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst (German painter and printmaker, 1712-1774) Extent: work depicted [500009500]

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: 695742; accession number: 2006.PR.21**

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

	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)

Dimensions: sheet 22 x 34 cm

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Alexander the Great (Macedonian king, 356-323 BCE) [500280655]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Apelles (Greek painter, active late 4th century BCE) [500021288]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	studios (work spaces) [300007725]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, building divisions, rooms and spaces, <rooms and spaces by function>, <work and instructional spaces>) (AAT)

Provenance: vbae; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Norblin fecit 1774. "D 733"--printed in reverse on stone in lower left corner.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Alexander and Apelles]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 695742
Alexandre et Apelles	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Alexander the Great in the Studio of Apelles	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Le Blanc, C. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes no. 10

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