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Details
- Other Title
- The Church and Abbey of Clairvaux in Burgundy
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
- 13.8 x 24.2 cm image
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 289.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Israel Silvestre
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About
Silvestre was one of the printmakers in France who followed the etching method of Jacques Callot and Abraham Bosse. Like them, he employed a vocabulary of lines and marks that pertained to engraving. Primarily a topographical etcher, Silvestre was commissioned by Louis XIV to document the towns, palaces and monuments of the expanded royal domain. Callot's influence is especially evident in the small gesticulating figures which give scale and animation to the compositions.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Le Grand Siècle, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Jun 1997–17 Jul 1997
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Peter Raissis, Le Grand Siècle, Sydney, 1997. no catalogue numbers
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