Illuminations autour du grand Canal de Versailles

1676

Jean Lepautre

Artist, French, 1618 - 1682

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.2 × 41.9 cm (11 7/8 × 16 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.19.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1600): no. 913, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Francois Heugel, Paris [1922 - 2010] (Lugt 3373). A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600): no. 913, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Sixieme Journée / Illuminations autour du grand Canal de Versailles representant des Palais, / des Pyramides, des Fontaines, des Statues, des Terms, des Poissons, &c.; lower right in plate: le Pautre sculps. 1676 / Dies Sextus / Nocturnae Illuminationes circa majorem Versaliarum Alueum, ceu variae Palatiorum, / Pyramidum, Fontiu, Statuarum, Terminorum, Piscium & figurae incluso igne fulgentes.

Wikidata ID

Q76558963

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