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
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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
2015.142.1.1-56
Associated Artworks
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Alliance de l'Allemagne et de l'Espagne avec la Hollande 1672 Cintre de la Gallerie du côté du Salon de la Guerre (Alliance of Germany and Spain with Holland 1672, Center of the Gallery next to the Salon of War) [pl. 31]
Jean-Baptiste Massé, Laurent Cars
1752
Etablissemens de l'hôtel Royal des Invalides 1674 (Establishment of the Royal Residence of the Invalids 1674) [pl. 22]
Jean-Baptiste Massé, Claude-Augustin Duflos, Johann Georg Wille
1752
Ornemens d'un autre Angle du Salon de la Paix (Ornament at One of the Corners of the Salon of Peace) [pl. 50]
Jean-Baptiste Massé, Johann Martin Preissler
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.