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Les delices de Versailles et des maisons royales, ou, Recueil de vues perpectives des plus beaux endroits des châteaux, parcs, jardins, fontaines & bosquets de Versailles, la Ménagerie, Trianon, Marly, Meudon, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Sceaux

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Jombert, Charles Antoine, 1712-1784
Publication
A Paris: Rue Dauphine, chez l'auteur, libraire du Roi pour l'artillerie & le génie, à l'image Notre-Dame, MDCCLXVI [1766]

Description

Digital Facsimile

"Table des titres contenus dans ce volume": Page ij [ii].

"Table des planches contenues dans Les delices de Versailles et des maisons royales": Page 45.

Plates drawn and engraved by father Gabriel Perelle and sons, Nicolas and Adam; descriptions by Charles Antoine Jombert.

Plate numbers appear at bottom right of plate image, a very few plates unnumbered; some leaves have 2 plate images; plate versos blank.

Gabriel Pérelle produced several hundred engravings according to his own drawings as well as those of his competitors Israel Sylvestre, Paul Bril, Jacques Callot, Michel Corneille the Elder, Pierre Asselin, Jacques Fouquieres, or Sébastien Pontault of Beaulieu. These etchings represent mainly landscapes of the Paris region, including views of castles, where he introduced variety by adding ruins and various accessories.

"Approbation de M. Cochin", "Privilege du roi", and "Fautes a Corriger" on page 48.

 

Language

French
 

Subject

Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800; Palaces -- France -- Early works to 1800; Castles -- France -- Early works to 1800; Gardens, French -- France -- Early works to 1800; Gardens -- France -- Early works to 1800; Gardens -- France -- Design; Parks -- France -- Early works to 1800