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Optical view of the Place de la Carrière in Nancy (France)
XVIIIth century optical view in original watercolors. Original copper plate engraving on laid paper heightened with watercolor at that time. Published by Jean-François Daumont in Paris circa 1770

18th Century optical view in original watercolors of the Place de la Carrière in Nancy (France)
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177018th Century
  • Date : circa 1770
  • Century : 18th Century
  • Period : Louis XV
  • Technique : Strong water etching
  • Paper : Laid paper
  • Publisher : Jean-François Daumont
  • Place of publication : Paris
  • Passepartout : 50.0 x 65.0 cm
  • Sheet : 31.0 x 43.0 cm
  • Plate : 25.0 x 41.0 cm
  • Inventory N° : FR-03403
600€
(Frame not included)
  • Certificate of authenticity
  • Passepartout included
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Original title

Vue Meridionale de la grande Place, dite la Carriere a Nancy

Mentions

A Paris chez Daumont rue St. Martin.

Description

XVIIIth century optical view in original watercolors. Original copper plate engraving on laid paper heightened with watercolor at that time. Published by Jean-François Daumont in Paris circa 1770, depicting a view of the Place de la Carrière in Nancy (France).

During the 18th Century, several renowned establishments in Paris, London (England), Augsburg (Germany) and Bassano (Italy) were specialized in the creation of these optical views. They could be viewed alone or through a zograscope, a wooden foot surmounted by a lens which enlarged the image and accentuated the perspective effect. They could also be placed in optical boxes, the spectator then looked inside the box through the lens. This distraction was greatly appreciated in the 18th Century in the salons of the bourgeoisie and the nobility as in the countryside thanks to the hawkers.

These etchings are nowadays exhibited in museums around the world and extremely appreciated by collectors and decorators for their historical interest and their high decorative value.

Museums & Archives

The Bibliothèque nationale de France owns a copy of this optical view in its collections. For more details on this print please consult the site : Vue meridionale de la grande place, dite la carriere a nancy

Condition report

A restored tear in the lower margin (2cm)

This strong water etching is listed in these categories :

Place de la Carrière

Place de la Carrière is a square in the old town of Nancy, a French commune located in Lorraine on the banks of the Meurthe a few kilometers upstream from its point of confluence with the Moselle.

Place Neuve de la Carrière was created in the 16th century when the fortifications of the medieval town were enlarged, and the nobility of Nancy had their mansions built there. From its creation it will be the place of tournaments, jousting and other equestrian activities. At the end of the 16th century, the French occupiers pierced a door in the ramparts, the Porte Royale, to create an axis of communication towards the new town built in the south, behind the ramparts. To the north was a wing of the palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, a wing destroyed by Duke Leopold wishing to have a new Louvre built which will never be completed. In the south-east will be built at the beginning of the 18th century the hotel de Beauvau-Craon, work of Germain Boffrand.

Stanislas Leszczynski, recent monarch of Lorraine, decides to reunite the old town with the new town by reusing the Quarry, the Royal Gate, and a vast esplanade which will become Place Stanislas. To the north, on the unfinished ruins of the new Louvre by Léopold, is built the Palais de l'Intendance surrounded by a large colonnade in a hemicycle adorned with statues and busts of Olympian gods, bordered by two mansions which line up with those of the Renaissance.

The Optical View

The Galerie Napoléon is pleased to propose to you this strong water etching printed 254 years ago (around 1770).

As for all the antique prints in our catalogue, this optical view Vue Meridionale de la grande Place, dite la Carriere a Nancy datant de 1770 is dispatched worldwide within 24H in a Secured packaging, accompanied by its certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the name of the artists (draughtsman, engraver, editor), the impression process used (Strong water) and its date (1770).

In order to guarantee a perfect conservation in time, this strong water etching is dispatched, ready to be framed, under museum quality color passepartout (manufactured without acid in the pulp for a neutral pH) on a cream mountboard made from carton bois (also acid free & neutral pH), in a luxurious portfolio.

History of the Optical views

At the apogee of the mode for optical views, between 1750 and 1790, four European cities specialized in their edition: Paris (France), London (England), Augsburg (Germany) and Bassano (Italy).

Optical views are prized in very different social circles : pleasant recreation in aristocratic salons, the views are admired in beautiful and richly decorated optical boxes which are real works of art. The show was transformed into a real scientific experiment. But the optical views also entertained the people who were in a hurry when a hawker set up a box on a market and began to narrate the extraordinary events that had taken place in a more or less distant and inaccessible country.

There are three categories in the production of optical views.

  • Topographic views: Cities, Monuments, Ports, Distant regions, reproduced with more or less accuracy, depending on the documents available to the engraver. It is obvious that the authors of these prints had not seen these territories. They therefore recomposed these landscapes by compiling various engravings and drawings, which explains many fantasies.
  • The historical scenes : Inaugurations, Coronations, Battles, Fires or Natural disasters form a subject that the people are fond of.
  • Views with a religious or moralizing theme. For educational value, these prints were mainly produced by Parisian publishers in the rue Saint-Jacques.

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