Pierre Brébiette
The Triumph of Painting, Music, Grammar, and Arithmetic

ArtistFrench, c. 1598–c. 1650
CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Triumph of Painting, Music, Grammar, and Arithmetic
  • Le Peinture
Datec. 1636
MediumEtching
DimensionsPlate: 3 × 13 3/8 in. (7.6 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (14 × 39.4 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Frame (inner): 20 1/8 × 24 3/16 in. (51.1 × 61.4 cm)
Frame (outer): 21 1/8 × 25 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (53.7 × 64.1 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2000.12.1
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Object Type
Provenance[Hill-Stone, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2000.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscriptions: At lower left: P. Brebiette . in. f.; below image: Veux tu entre les arts ce qui est necessaire GRAMMAIRE. Suy les enseignements que prescrit la Grammaire; in manuscript at upper right: Brebiette Gaveur / (N.o 37) . . . [?]; in manuscript at upper right corner of paper: 25;

Mounted on two sheets of paper, at the upper right corners of which are inscribed in manuscript: 33 (numbers 1 and 2); 34 (numbers 3 and 4)


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