ID: 700001143 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001143	Record Type: Movable Work

[Rescue of the young Pyrrhus] (etching (print); Audran, Gérard (printmaker, 1640-1703); published by Se ven...; Published: 1600s; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2647-175; 647175; (OCoLC)ocm85172982; accession number: 2004.PR.50**;)

Note: First state dated probably ca.1674 (cf. Wildenstein); state with address at the rue Saint-Jacques dates from 1681 or after; "Academiae regiae picturae et sculpturae G. Audran D. D. D."--in lower margin with passage in French and Latin from Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus; Copperplate at the Chalcographie of the Louvre, no. 1219; Also known as: Le jeune Pyrrhus sauvé (IFF), Pyrrhus sauvé (Robert-Dumesnil), or Sauvetage du jeune Pyrrhus (Wildenstein); Devised title; French printmaker, who was admitted (reçu) to the Académie royale in 1674; The print reproduces a painting by Nicolas Poussin showing the infant Pyrrhus being saved by soldiers and servants from enemies of his father (Paris, Musée du Louvre, Inv. 7292).[Paris] : Se vend chez Audran aux Deux Piliers d'Or rue St. Jacques avec priui. du Roy, [16--] (34501/publishers)

Titles:

[Rescue of the young Pyrrhus] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Sauvetage du jeune Pyrrhus. (C,U,undetermined,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)

engraving (print) [300041340]

..... (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)

reproductive print [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))

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: 1600s

Creator Display:

Audran, Gérard (printmaker, 1640-1703); published by Se vend chez Audran aux Deux Piliers d'Or rue St. Jacques avec priui. du Roy [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Audran, Gérard (French engraver and publisher, 1640-1703) [500020005]

Plutarch (Greek author and priest, ca. 50-after 120 CE) [500330563]

painter Poussin, Nicolas (French painter and draftsman, 1594-1665, active in Italy) Extent: work depicted [500005036]

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: 2647-175; 647175; (OCoLC)ocm85172982; accession number: 2004.PR.50**

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: Département de Ville-de-Paris [7002980] (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print (2 sheets on 1 mount): etching, engraving, b&w

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

	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)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(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: joined sheets 73 x 94 cm, on mount 63.5 x 92.5 cm

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French fine arts academy, 1648-1793) [500115631]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Pyrrhus (Epirot king, 319-272 BCE) [500354262]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: jberg purchase

Inscriptions: N. Poussin pinxit.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Rescue of the young Pyrrhus]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 647175
Sauvetage du jeune Pyrrhus.	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle vol. 1, p. 135, no. 62

....................... Wildenstein, G. "Les graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle," Gazette des beaux-arts t. XLVI, 1955, p. 249-250, no. 109

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