GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Pyramid of Couhard
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Anonymous French artist (17th century)
 
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date Early 17th century
Inscription « La pyramide de Couard. tout cela est encor de mesme »
References BnF, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 142v° (left)
Bibliography Rebourg 1993, pp. 159-161 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116
Remarks

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

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