print
- Museum number
- 1873,0809.1177
- Title
- Object: Le marais d'eau est situé au bout du parterre...
- Description
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The 'bosquet du Marais' in the gardens of Versailles: courtiers admiring a tree-shaped fountain standing at the centre of a basin with reeds and jets forming arches on each side
Etching
- Production date
- 1670-1703
- Dimensions
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Width: 293 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression is kept in an album, see 1873,0809.1082.
This fountain was built c.1670/74, after a design created by the King's mistress, Madame de Montespan. It was turned into a new version of the Baths of Apollo in 1704.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0809.1177