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View and perspective of the Palace of Versailles, from within the outer courtyard
(Veue et perspective du Chasteau de Versailles, de dans l'anti-court)
1664
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Measurements
- 36.8 × 49.5 cm (image) 37.6 × 49.8 cm (plate) 49.5 × 65.4 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Faucheux 317.8
- Edition
- only state
- Printing/Publishing
- published by l’Imprimerie Royale, Paris
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.l.: Israel Silvestre, delineauit et Sculpsit. 1664.
printed in ink l.c.l.: Veuë et perspectiue du Chasteau de Versailles, de dedans l'anti-court - Accession Number
- p.183.57-1
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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In 1624 Louis XIII constructed a small hunting lodge near the village of Versailles. Following his father’s death in 1643, the young Louis XIV continued to use the lodge as base for hunting expeditions throughout the 1650s. In 1661 he took control of the government and began to develop Versailles in an ambitious manner, enlisting the talents of architect Louis Le Vau, landscape designer André Le Nôtre and painter Charles Le Brun, who also designed much of the garden sculpture. This print offers a glimpse into the architecture of Versailles just three years later, long before the palace became the primary residence of France’s monarch.
