File:Davent bm alex.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![File:Davent bm alex.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Davent_bm_alex.jpg/434px-Davent_bm_alex.jpg?20170108015708)
Size of this preview: 434 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 174 × 240 pixels | 347 × 480 pixels | 750 × 1,036 pixels.
Original file (750 × 1,036 pixels, file size: 295 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]DescriptionDavent bm alex.jpg |
English: British Museum, Alexander the Great and Campaspe sitting on a couch and posing for Apelles standing in the foreground in front of his easel; at the back of the sheet, a sketch in pencil representing a chimney (?). c.1541/45 Etching by: Léon Davent After: Francesco Primaticcio
Height: 375 millimetres Width: 260 millimetres Zerner 1969 LD.51 One of the three plates etched after the frescoes executed by Primaticcio for the room of the Duchesse d'Etampes, Fontainebleau (1541-44). The preparatory drawing to Primaticcio's work is kept at Chatsworth (Inv.186). Also see 'The French Renaissance in Prints', Los Angeles 1994, cat. No.49 |
Date |
1540s date QS:P,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 |
Source | museums |
Author | Léon Davent - French printmaker in the mid 16th century |
Licensing
[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. {{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
(Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter 1= can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.) |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 01:57, 8 January 2017 | ![]() | 750 × 1,036 (295 KB) | Johnbod (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org