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Le Chateau d'Ancy le Franc

Primary (Paris, France, 1638–1695)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1660
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/4 × 13 9/16 in. (26 × 34.5 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (21.9 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.574
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.574
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Label Text
Ancy-le-Franc (constructed 1544-50) is a château in Burgundy commissioned by the French nobleman Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre from the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio. The print shows a perspectival view of the whole estate and the surrounding landscape. The central axis dividing the parterres and running through the château is a fundamental principle of the French formal garden. A road alongside cultivated fields and pasture leads across the bridge to a hamlet dominated by a spire in the distance.
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