Recueil de divers Desseins de Fontaines et de Frises Maritimes
Artist: Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690)
Publisher: Chez Audran, Paris
Date: about 1670-1680
Dimensions:
portfolio: 22 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (578 x 387mm)
sheet: 21 7/8 x 14 15/16 in. (555 x 380mm)
Medium: Original prints: 20 engravings on cream laid paper
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1967.128A-T
Label Text:Originally bound, these engravings made after designs by Charles Le Brun represent unexecuted projects for the palace of Versailles and for Paris locations during the reign of Louis XIV. The engravings show friezes for the Salles des Bains (bathing rooms) and designs for fountains. There is dispute concerning the actual engraver of these images.
Charles Le Brun was born in Paris and began his formal training as an artist at the age of eleven. He went on to become the most influential arbiter of art in France in the later part of the 17th century. His influence on the court of Louis XIV was immense and the style that developed under his stewardship came to be accepted throughout Europe. So much was he favored by the king and the French ministers of finance, that Le Brun was automatically given all of the commissions for the decoration of the royal palaces starting in the 1660s.
Charles Le Brun was born in Paris and began his formal training as an artist at the age of eleven. He went on to become the most influential arbiter of art in France in the later part of the 17th century. His influence on the court of Louis XIV was immense and the style that developed under his stewardship came to be accepted throughout Europe. So much was he favored by the king and the French ministers of finance, that Le Brun was automatically given all of the commissions for the decoration of the royal palaces starting in the 1660s.
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