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First day – Pageant of the King, with his knights…
(Premiere Journée – Comparse du Roi, et de ses Chevaliers…)
(1664)
plate 3 from the Les Plaisirs de L'Isle Enchantée, ou les festes, et les divertissements du Roy, à Versailles, Diviséz en trois journeés, et commencéz le 7me jour de May de l’année 1664 (The Pleasures of the Enchanted Isle, or the festivities and amusements of the King at Versailles, divided in three days commencing on the 7th of May 1664) series (1664)
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Measurements
- 27.2 × 41.5 cm (image) 27.7 × 42.3 cm (plate) 45.5 × 58.9 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Le Blanc 768, Faucheux 318.3 iii/iii, Preaud 916.3 iii/iii
- Edition
- 3rd of 3 states
- Printing/Publishing
- published by l’Imprimerie Royale, Paris (c. 1673)
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Israel Silvestre, deline, et sculpsit Parisiis.
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Comparse du Roy et de ses Chevaliers, avec toutes leurs fuittes, / dans le Camp de la course de bague, pendant l'Ouverture
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: de la feste, faite par les recits d'Apollon et des quatre / siecles, assis fur un grand Char de triomphe.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Premiere Journée.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 3 - Accession Number
- p.183.74-1
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
