La Grande Galerie de Versailles, et les deux salons qui l'accompagnent (The Grand Gallery of Versailles and Two Accompanying Salons)
1752
Artist, French, 1687 - 1767
Engraver, German, 1715 - 1808
Engraver
Artist After, French, 1619 - 1690
Artist After, French, 1696 - 1772
Jean-Baptiste Massé (designer and author) and various engravers after Charles Le Brun, with an engraved portrait of J-B Massé by Johann Georg Wille after Louis Tocqué
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 56 engravings including 1 engraved portrait of Massé and 23 double-spread plates
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 65.5 × 49 × 5.7 cm (25 13/16 × 19 5/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2015.142.1.1-56
Associated Artworks
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Jean Baptiste Massé
Johann Georg Wille
1755
Développemens de la décoration intérieure, et des Peintres du plafond de la Galerie de Versailles (Plan of the Interior Decoration and Ceiling Paintings in the Versailles Gallery)
Jean-Baptiste Massé, Andrew Lawrence, Charles-Nicolas Cochin II
1752
Le Roi gouverne par lui meme 1661 (The King Governs on His Own) [pl. 2]
Jean-Baptiste Massé, Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis, Jacques Nicolas Tardieu
1752
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dyson Perrins Museum Trust (stamp). R.W. Burns (bookplate). David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
inside first endpaper in graphite circled: EF/1876
Watermarks
Partial watermark visible. Two lines of block letter text [J...AUVERGNE...] with castle or turret in first line. Likely #515 in W.A. Churchill's Watermarks in Paper [J DUPUY MOYEN / AUVERGNE 1742]. Mark appears throughout the book but is not in every sheet.