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Peace   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Tuby  (1635–1700)  wikidata:Q568943
 
Jean-Baptiste Tuby
Alternative names
Tubi ; Jean-Baptiste Tuby le Romain
Description French sculptor
Date of birth/death 1635 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1700 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rome Paris
Work period 1660s-1690s
Work location
Paris, Versailles
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q568943
After Charles Le Brun  (1619–1690)  wikidata:Q271676 s:it:Autore:Charles Le Brun
 
After Charles Le Brun
Alternative names
Charles Lebrun
Description French painter, architect, decorator, designer, graphic artist and printmaker
Date of birth/death 24 February 1619 Edit this at Wikidata 12 February 1690
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work location
Paris (....-1642), Rome (1642-1646), Paris (1646-....), Versailles (1679-1684, 1886)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q271676
Title
Peace
label QS:Len,"Peace"
label QS:Lfr,"La Paix"
Object type sculpture
object_type QS:P31,Q860861
Description
English: Allegorical sculpture at the entrance to the Palace of Versailles
Français : Une statue, "La Paix" par Jean-Baptiste Tuby, à l'entrée du Palais de Versailles.
Date between 1680 and 1682
date QS:P571,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1682-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium stone
medium QS:P186,Q22731
Dimensions 340 × 193 × 199 cm (133.8 × 75.9 × 78.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q2946
Current location
Français : Sur du piédestal au haut de la rampe au nord de l'Avant-cour
English: On a pedestal at the top of the north ramp of the Forecourt (near the Place d'Armes); formerly located near the southeast corner of the Gabriel Wing in the Cour Royale
References Versailles, décor sculpté extérieur
Source/Photographer
Object location48° 48′ 15.59″ N, 2° 07′ 26.54″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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