Gallia Romana

Notice

City Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s)
Author(s)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date Early 17th century
Inscription p align="justify">« Caues ou se mettoient aultrefois les bestes feroces, estant en la coruée proche ledict Amphiteatre : c’est tout ce qui reste de lamphitheatre pourtant ce qui est peint en ce liure a esté tiré sur les originaux il ia trante ans pour Mr le president Jeannin et jay eu bien de la peine de le tirer du peintre »
References BnF, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 153
Bibliography

Fontenay 1889, p. 181 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 72-76 ; Lemerle 2005, p.113-116

Remarks

Transcription

Fontenay 1889, p. 181 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 72-76 ; Lemerle 2005, p.113-116

The drawing shows remains of the theatre, rather than the amphitheatre. The drawings of Autun’s antiquities were commissioned by Pierre Jeannin (known as the President Jeannin); they were gathered together by Peiresc some thirty years later