In the Gallery of the Palace with a Chandelier, plate 3 from Italian-Style Wall
Primary
Jean Le Pautre
(Paris, France, 1618–1682)
Publisher
Langlois
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1659
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 7 7/16 in. (27.9 × 18.9 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 13/16 × 6 in. (22.4 × 15.2 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 13/16 × 6 in. (22.4 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, purchase from the Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1997.79
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1997.79
On View
Not on viewIn his series Lambris à l'italienne, Lepautre is concerned not with individuals or behavior, but the interior spaces surrounding the nobility. The anonymous figures that populate this invented architectural interior are incidental in comparison with the carefully rendered decorative tapestries, chandeliers, and frescoes
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