print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1928,0713.68
- Title
- Object: Veue de la facade de l'église de l'hôtel royal des Invalides
- Description
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Bird's view of the Invalides in Paris, with the domed church at centre framed by semicircular colonnade, lined-up soldiers and galopping cavalrymen on the esplanade preceding the church; in decorative border with royal coat of arms supported by Fames in the upper part; a frontispiece to 'Description de l'Hôtel Royal des Invalides établi par Louis le Grand dans la plaine de Grenelle près Paris avec les plans, profils et élévations de ses faces, coupes et appartements' (Paris: 1683). c.1680/83
Etching
- Production date
- 1680-1683 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 315 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 234 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of a book which also included illustrations by Jean Marot, Daniel Marot, Jean le Pautre, Scotin and Pierre Le Pautre, see Mauban, 'Jean Marot', Paris 1944, pp.116-119. Jean Marot died in 1679 so his plates were engraved long before 1683.
The complete inscription reads: 'Veue de la Facade de l'Eglise de l'Hôtel Royal des Invalides du côté / de la Campagne; avec la colonnade projettée' and 'Dessinée et Gravée par P. Le Pautre Architecte et Graveur du Roy'.
The colonnade, which was part of Mansart's design, was eventually not executed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Description de l'Hôtel Royal des Invalides
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1928,0713.68
