Details

Subject(s)

• Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Interior architecture—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Interior architecture—Europe—In art [Browse]
• Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art [Browse]
• Palaces—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Interior decoration—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]
• Paris (France)—History—17th century—In art [Browse]
• France—History—17th century—In art [Browse]
• Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner [Browse]
• Galerie des glaces (Château de Versailles, Versailles, France)—In art [Browse]
• Mural painting and decoration—France—Versailles—In art [Browse]

[after] designer

• Massé, Jean Baptiste, 1687-1767 [Browse]

[after] painter

• Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690 [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Engravings
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Peint par Ch. Le Brun et dessine par J.B. Masse".
• Signed in plate, lower right: "Grave par Duflos // fini par de Will.".

Source acquisition

Acquired by Princeton in 1886 in an exchange with the Bibliotheque nationale (France). John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, effected the exchange, recorded by the BN as "Double e'change" No. 907.

References

Milovanovic 25

Other title(s)

La Grande Galerie de Versailles et les Deux Salons qui l'Accompagnent, no. 22

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