Terms and conditions of use
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)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
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
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