Le Chateau d'Ancy le Franc
Primary
Adam Perelle
(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)
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
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.574
On View
Not on viewAncy-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.
Exhibitions
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Adam Perelle
published by Langlois in 1704
![Arch of Constantine, from the Vues de Rome et de ses environs [Views of Rome and Its Surroundings]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16537/thumbnail)
![Arch of Septimius Severus and the Campidoglio, from the Vues de Rome et de ses environs [Views of Rome and Its Surroundings]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16538/thumbnail)
![La Salle des Festins, Versailles [The Hall of Feasts, Versailles]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18281/thumbnail)
Adam Perelle
published by Langlois in 1704
![Veue du canal et des cascades de Fontaine Bleau, from the Veues des plus beaux lieux de France et d'Italie [Views of the Most Beautiful Places in France and Italy]](/internal/media/dispatcher/23331/thumbnail)
Boetius Adams Bolswert
1631