The Festivals of Love and Bacchus, a musical comedy performed in the small park - Jean Lepautre

Engraving The Festivals of Love and Bacchus, a musical comedy performed in the small park - Jean Lepautre

KM003928
Modern proof printed on Pascal Jeanjean paper, laid 250 gr.
Last 10 draws made in November 2018.
Dated, numbered, stamped - delivered with certificate of authenticity.

The sumptuous celebrations held at the Palace of Versailles were intended to entertain the king's court and express the king's power...
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Size of the sheet
H.38cm L.56 cm
Artist
Jean Lepautre 1618-1682
Maintenance
Eviter toute source d'humidité et de lumière directe. Ne pas plier la feuille
Copper plate size
H.30,6cm L.42,5cm
Reference
KM003928
EAN
3336727351789
Matière de l'article
Papier hahnemühle
Package Dimensions
3.8cm x 5.6cm
Editor
Ateliers d'art de la Rmn-GP
Conservation museums
Paris - Chalcographie du musée du Louvre, Versailles - Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

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The work and its artist

Jean Lepautre 1618-1682

Draftsman and engraver. He devoted himself to engraving and during his long career produced nearly fifteen hundred etchings and chisels. Appointed ordinary engraver of King Louis XIV in 1667, he was received at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1677. Estimated at 1500 plates, his entire work is varied and covers various themes. His recognition by Colbert earned him the right to engrave boards of rare quality for the King's Cabinet. Thus we can mention the entire Grotto of Versailles, the Festival given at Versailles on 18 July 1668, the Entertainment given by the King in 1674, as well as the engravings of various basins, statues and vases of the Versailles Park that the chalcography of the Louvre preserves.