Veüe générale de la Ville et du Chateau de Versailles du côté des Jardins (View of Versailles)

late 17th/early 18th century

Pierre Aveline the Elder

Artist, French, 1654 - 1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David H. McDonnell

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 44.4 × 58.6 cm (17 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.)
    plate: 35 × 52.6 cm (13 3/4 × 20 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2021.112.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1600), no. 201 or 202

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Grosvenor Prints, London); David McDonnell, Washington DC, purchased 2013; gift to NGA, 2021

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600): nos. 201 or 202

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at top center: VERSAILLES; in plate, at lower center: Veüe générale de la Ville et du Chateau de / Versailles du côté des Jardins / Aveline fecit et excudit C.P.R.;at lower right, in graphite: 360 [circled]; verso: at lower right, in graphite: 8697 [in box] / v:0S:EU

Markings

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