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Audran, Jean (Lyon 1667-Paris 1756). La vraye valeur est toujours invincible. Porus abandonné des siens blessa plusieurs de ceux qui l'environnoient, tua le frère de Taxile, & apres ce dernier éfort de courage il tomba luy même accablé de coups de dessus son elephant. Virtus timoris nescia sordidi... Paris, chez B. Audran et chez I. Audran, 1699-1708. Beautiful large oblong etching and engraving by Jean Audran after Charles le Brun, depicting the Battle of Hydaspes, 326 BC, where Alexander the Great fought against King Porus; with the latter riding an elephant at centre, and trying to repel the Greek soldiers surrounding him; two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in the bottom margin. Signed in the plate: C. le Brun in. I. Audran ex.; with 5 lines of engraved text in French and Latin underneath (see above); and dedication to Jules Hardouin Mansart by J. Audran. 29,1 x 59,6 cm. (# 5830)

Not. in I.F.F. In database of British Museum. Very fine and rare etching/engraving after Charles le Brun (Paris 1619-Paris 1690). Alexander the Great fought 326 BC at the battle of Hydaspes, nowadays in Pakistan, against the Indian Râja Pûru, named Poros by the Greek. Alexander won, but his army refused to go further into India, also because they encountered for the first time war elephants. The French King Louis XIV demanded Charles le Brun to paint a large series of paintings depicting the History of Alexander the Great. Several of those paintings, painted 1665-1673, are now in the Louvre; others were not executed and exist only in drawn preparatory studies. J. Audran, his brother B. Audran and others made prints after these paintings, at the request of Louis XIV. According to Claudia Sommer, Leiterin der Graphischen Sammlung des SPSG, Potsdamer neueste Nachrichten (18.07.09), the painting for our print stayed unfinished and existed only as a preliminary drawing on canvas. The plate is dedicated to Julles Hardouin Mansart, Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, a charge he held from 1699 to 1708. - Fine impression, cut to the plate mark, mounted. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Indian miniature, showing a kneeling lady at breakfast. 17th century. Very fine drawing in watercolour in various colours and highthened with gold. ca. 14,5 x 9,8 cm. Framed under glass. (# 2246)

Indian drawing of great refinement. - Tiny repair.