Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles et de Marly :
contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures, tableaux, statues, vases & ornemens qui s'y voient, leurs dimensions & et les noms des peintres, des sculpteurs & des graveurs qui les on faits : enrichie des plusieurs figures en taille douce ... /
par M. Piganiol de la Force.

Description

Main Author

Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar, 1673-1753.

Related Names

Le Gras, Marie-Madeleine, d. 1747.
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714
Aveline, Pierre, le vieux, 1654-1722
Scotin, Jean-Baptiste, b. 1678.

Language(s)

French

Published

A Paris : Chez la veuve Delaulne [i.e. Marie-Madeleine Le Gras] ..., 1730.

Edition

Sixieme edition.

Subjects

Château de Marly-le-Roi (Marly-le-Roi, France)
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Architecture > Architecture / France > Architecture / France / Marly-le-Roi > Architecture / France / Marly-le-Roi / Early works to 1800.
Art > Art / France > Art / France / Marly-le-Roi > Art / France / Marly-le-Roi / Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Architecture / France > Architecture / France / Versailles > Architecture / France / Versailles / Early works to 1800.
Art > Art / France > Art / France / Versailles > Art / France / Versailles / Early works to 1800.
Marly-le-Roi (France) > Marly-le-Roi (France) / Buildings, structures, etc.
Versailles (France) > Versailles (France) / Buildings, structures, etc.
Engravings > Engravings / France > Engravings / France / 18th century.

Note

Plates mostly engraved by Jean-Baptiste Scotin, some are also by Pierre Aveline and Sébastien Le Clerc.
Title ornament; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials.
Signatures, v. 1: ã¹⁰ A-M¹²; v. 2: ã² A-O¹² P⁸ Q⁴.
Pagination, v. 1: [20], 288 p., [8] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 355, [5] p., [6] folded leaves of plates.
Errata: v. 2, p. [1] at end.

Physical Description

2 v. : ill., plans ; 18 cm. (12mo)

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