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Jacques Rigaud
1681-1754
Les Dômes
Black chalk, pen and gray ink, gray wash on paper.
8 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches (220 x 473 mm)
Purchased on the Lois and Walter Baker Fund.
2007.89
Notes:
The present sheet is a preparatory design for plate 9 in the artist's 1730 volume of prints depicting views of Versailles from the series "Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, château, et maisons royales de Paris et des environs" [Paris: Basan, ca. 1720-39]. The drawing depicts two pavilions added by Jules-Hardouin Mansart in 1677 to a quadrant of the Versailles gardens originally planned by Le Nôtre. While the pavilions are no longer extant, the decorated balustrade remains. The Morgan received a copy of Rigaud's Recueil as the gift of Paul Mellon in 1979.
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"44".
Provenance:
J-B Glomy, mounter (his mark, L. 1120); Jean Bloch; sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21 May 1957, lot 16r; J. Kugel, Paris, 1996; acquired at sale, London, Christie's, 3 July 2007, lot 128, repr.
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