Sainte Geneviève patrone de Paris (Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris)

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Sainte Geneviève patrone de Paris (Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris)
Sainte Geneviève patrone de Paris (Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris)
Artist/Maker (French, 1715 - 1764)
Date1758-59
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsComposition: 18 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (47.6 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (54 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase
Object number1995.63
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 1995: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by purchase from Robert Dance, Inc.
Signature Signed in plate at lower right: J Balechou Arelats Sculpsit; in plate at lower left: C Vanlo Eques pinxit
Inscribed Entitled in plate at lower center: Sainte Genevieve Patrone de Paris / Dedié au Roy; inscribed in plate at lower left: Tiré de la Galerie de Mr. Siffredy Mornas a Avignon; in plate at lower right: Par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres fidelle seruileur et sujet Balechou Chez l'auteur au bout de la rue portail mayanen a Avignon; in pencil on verso at lower left: M. 10615 zfo / EZ; in pencil on verso at lower center: 169
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.248
Paris - Luxembourg. Fremiet. Saint-Georges
Paris - Luxembourg. Fremiet. Saint-Georges
Fratelli Alinari Fotografi Editori
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.17
Vue panoramique de Paris (Perspective des sept ponts)
Vue panoramique de Paris (Perspective des sept ponts)
Jean Pierre Yves-Petit
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Rotogravure
Object number: S2018.2.1112
Le membre de toutes les académies (The Member of All the Academies), no. 25 from the series Bohemiens De Paris (Bohemians of Paris)
Le membre de toutes les académies (The Member of All the Academies), no. 25 from the series Bohemiens De Paris (Bohemians of Paris)
Honoré Daumier
Date: published March 6, 1842
Medium: Lithograph on parchment paper
Object number: 1984.12
The Legs of Marisa (Berenson), Paris
The Legs of Marisa (Berenson), Paris
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: c. 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.195
Paris - Sainte Chapelle, les Pinacles
Paris - Sainte Chapelle, les Pinacles
Neurdein Frères
Date: 1906-1915
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.510
The World's Fair: Entrance to the Rue de Paris, Paris
The World's Fair: Entrance to the Rue de Paris, Paris
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
Date: 1900
Medium: Vintage aristotype print
Object number: 2022.15.157
Les lettres de l'ancienne (Letters from the Former), plate 79 from the series "Les Étudians de Paris"
Les lettres de l'ancienne (Letters from the Former), plate 79 from the series "Les Étudians de Paris"
Paul Gavarni
Date: 1840
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1988.14
The best view of Paris is undoubtedly from the 5th floor, which gives a panoramic perspective of the whole city, Paris
The best view of Paris is undoubtedly from the 5th floor, which gives a panoramic perspective of the whole city, Paris
Leonard Freed
Date: 1977
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.121
My First Photograph in Paris, Courtyard off Rue Jacob, Paris
My First Photograph in Paris, Courtyard off Rue Jacob, Paris
Todd Webb
Date: September 1948
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.348
Street corner with Au Vieux Paris, Paris, 1950
Street corner with Au Vieux Paris, Paris, 1950
Todd Webb
Date: 1950
Medium: Early gelatin silver print, printed 1979
Object number: 2022.15.145
Interior, Maison Internationale de la Cite Universitaire de Paris, France
Interior, Maison Internationale de la Cite Universitaire de Paris, France
René Zuber
Date: c. 1937
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.112