Veüe générale de la Ville et du Chateau de Versailles du côté des Jardins (View of Versailles), late 17th/early 18th century

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1600), no. 201 or 202

Accession Number

2021.112.6

Artists / Makers

Pierre Aveline the Elder (artist) French, 1654 - 1722

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Grosvenor Prints
McDonnell, David H.

Bibliography

1939: IFF (1600): nos. 201 or 202