Illuminations autour du grand Canal de Versailles, 1676

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series Title

Les Divertissemens de Versailles

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2017.19.4

Artists / Makers

Jean Lepautre (artist) French, 1618 - 1682

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Ellwanger, III, A. Thompson

Bibliography

1939: IFF (1600): no. 913, ii/ii