Represents the element of water depicting Neptune and Thetis on a chariot drawn by sea horses.
Etching with engraving made by Sébastien Leclerc in 1679, after tapestries by Charles Le Brun.
Size: approx. 30.5 x 37 cm.
Sébastien Leclerc (1637 - 1714) was an artist from Lorraine specializing in reproduction engraving. He made fine drawings, etchings and engravings of paintings and often worked in Paris for Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), First Painter of the court of King Louis XIV. Charles Le Brun was also director of the Manufacture des Gobelins where tapestries and furniture for the royal palaces were made.
