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Jean Le Pautre
Illuminations at the palace and gardens of Versailles (Illuminations du Palais et des Jardins de Versailles) 1679
etching and engraving
27.0 × 40.7 cm (image) 30.1 × 41.4 cm (plate) 45.5 × 59.0 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
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Illuminations at the palace and gardens of Versailles
(Illuminations du Palais et des Jardins de Versailles)
1679
plate 5 from Relation de la feste de Versailles du 18 juillet 1668 (An account of the festival given in Versailles on 18 July 1668) (1679)
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
27.0 × 40.7 cm (image) 30.1 × 41.4 cm (plate) 45.5 × 59.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Unlike the inaugural court festival of 1664, this 1668 celebration took place over the course of a single day. Events were staged throughout the palace grounds to showcase the recent expansion and redesign of the Versailles gardens, culminating in a fireworks display as dawn approached.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
IFF 932
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Illuminations du Palais et des Jardins de / Versailles
printed in ink l.c.: V
printed in ink l.r.: Nocturnæ Illuminationes, vasis statuisque incluso igne pellucentibus, / ad Palatij Versaliani fenestras, et per omnes hortorum areas et / xystos aptè dispositis
printed in ink l.r.: le Pautre sculps. 1679.
Accession Number
p.183.90-1
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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