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Sébastien Le Clerc
after Charles Le Brun
The Battle of Arabella When Alexander Gains the Submission of the Persians and, between 1637 and 1714
etching printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Sébastien Le Clerc, French, 1637-1714
Artist after Charles Le Brun, French, 1619-1690
Title
  • The Battle of Arabella When Alexander Gains the Submission of the Persians and
Date between 1637 and 1714
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 5 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (14.6 × 28.3 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (16.5 × 29.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S303.D
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: LA VERTU EST DIGNE DE L'EMPIRE DU MONDE. | Alexandre apres plusieurs victoires deffit Darius dans la bataille qu'il donna | pres d'Arbelle, et ce dernier combat ayant achevé de renverser le throsne des Perses, | tout l'orient fut soumis à la puissance des macedoniens.
Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: DIGNA ORBIS IMPERIO VIRTUS. | Post multas victorias virtute sua partas ultimo ad Arbella prœlio Darium | fugat Alexander caque clade funditus everso Perfarum solio totus Oriens in | potestatem Macedonici ceßit imperii.
Provenance
September 1899, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)