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First day – Alceste, a musical tragedy…

First day – Alceste, a musical tragedy…
(Première Journée – Alceste, Tragédie en musique…)
 1676
plate 1 from Les Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le Roy à toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comté en l’année 1674 (Festivities at Versailles given by the King to his court following the conquest of Franche-Comté in 1674) (1676)

Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
27.2 × 41.0 cm (image) 30.0 × 41.6 cm (plate) 44.8 × 59.0 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
IFF 909
Printing/Publishing
published by l’Imprimerie Royale, Paris
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: le Pautre, Sculps. 1676.
printed in ink l.c.l: Première journée. / Alceste, Tragedie en musique, one d’entrées de Ballet, representee a Versailles dans la / cour de marbre du Chasteau éclaire depuis le haut jusqu’en bas d’une infinite de lumieres.
printed in ink l.c.r: Dies primus. / Alcestes Tragaedia, perpetuo cantu et variis saltationibus decorate, in marmoreo / Palatii Versaliarum cauaedio, undequaque facibus accensis illuminati, acta.
Accession Number
p.183.78-1
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
Not on display