Live auction - Lot 167
[French]
14 views on French palaces.
Ca. 1670-1682
Hammer price: €
420
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Etchings, ca. 37 x 51 cm, laid paper with watermark (Maltese cross with rosary), signed in lower margin by Israel Silvestre, Gilles Jodelet de La Boissière, Sébastien Leclerc and Jean Lepautre with dates from 1670 to 1682, French (and sometimes also Latin) titles in lower margin (some with vertical folds, sometimes strengthened, few spots, sm. tears on edges, subject in pen on verso).
Good impressions with wide margins, probably 18th-c.
Large views by Israel Silvestre (11 prints), Gilles Jodelet de La Boissière (1 print), Sébastien Leclerc (1 print) and Jean Lepautre (1 print), depicting the palace and gardens of Versailles (7 prints), Fontainebleau (2 prints), Vaux (2 prints), the Palais-Royal (1 print), the Collège des Quatres-Nations (1 print) and the construction of the Louvre (1 print).