Original title
Vue interieure de l'Eglise Royale de St. Louis a Versailles.
Mentions
A Paris chés Mondhare rue St. Jacques a l'Hotel de Saumur et a St. Jacques.
Description
XVIIIth century optical view in original watercolors. Original copper plate engraving on laid paper heightened with watercolor at that time. Published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare in Paris circa 1770, depicting a view of the Versailles Cathedral (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.
Condition report
Water stains in the margins
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The village church of Versailles, before the castle was built, was dedicated to Saint Julien de Brioude. This church was demolished in 1681. In 1684, Louis XIV laid the first stone of a new building: the Notre-Dame parish which gave its name to the district. The inhabitants of old Versailles and the neighboring streets no longer had any place of worship. Notre-Dame was far and its access difficult, since it was then necessary to cross the place of arms to get there. As early as 1725, a temporary chapel about thirty meters long, surrounded by a cemetery, had been built near the King's vegetable patch.
It was only a branch of the Notre-Dame parish. The inhabitants had to be content with this chapel for several years.
Around 1740, it was decided to build a real church. Louis XV designated in May 1742 Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, grandson of the architect of Louis XIV, to the great displeasure of Ange-Jacques Gabriel, official architect of the king who hoped to receive the order.
The foundations were started in June 1742. The first stone was solemnly laid by the Archbishop of Paris on June 12, 1743. Louis XV himself placed in a cavity dug for this purpose a gold medal and four silver medals, then proceeded to seal the foundation stone.
The Galerie Napoléon is pleased to propose to you this strong water etching printed 255 years ago (around 1770).
As for all the antique prints in our catalogue, this optical view Vue interieure de l'Eglise Royale de St. Louis a Versailles. 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.
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.
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