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Optical view of Tuileries Garden - Louvre Palace - Paris (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 Tuileries Garden - Louvre Palace - Paris (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 : 29.0 x 44.0 cm
  • Plate : 28.0 x 41.0 cm
  • Inventory N° : FR-03468
600€
(Frame not included)
  • Certificate of authenticity
  • Passepartout included
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Original title

Le Jardin des Tuilleries en face du Palais du Louvre à Paris.

Mentions

A Paris chez Daumont rue S. 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 Tuileries Garden - Louvre Palace - Paris (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 Musée Carnavalet (Paris, France) owns a copy of this optical view in its collections. For more details on this print please consult the site : Le jardin des tuilleries en face du palais du louvre à paris.

Condition report

Very good state

This strong water etching is listed in these categories :

Tuileries Garden

Catherine de Médicis buys the land between the Charles V compound and the Fossés Jaunes compound. From 1564, she began construction on the Tuileries Palace there, while beginning the development of an Italian garden. It is made up of six alleys in the direction of the length and eight in the direction of the width, which delimit rectangular compartments including different plantations, trees, quincunxes, lawns, flowerbeds.

A fountain, a menagerie and a cave decorated by the famous ceramist Bernard Palissy decorate the garden.

In the years 1605-1625, an orangery and a silkworm farm were added.

In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV ordered that the garden be entirely redesigned by André Le Nôtre.

Many marble statues also adorn the garden. In 1719, the main entrance was flanked by two statues of Antoine Coysevox, representing Mercury and Fame riding a winged horse.

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 Le Jardin des Tuilleries en face du Palais du Louvre à Paris. 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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In addition to thousands of impassioned of antique prints throughout the world, the Galerie Napoléon is honoured to count among its customers : national archives, museums, historical monuments and important home designer companies. All attracted by the extraordinary diversity of its catalogue and the quality and speed of its services.

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