Title & Author:

Les plans, profils, et elevations, des ville, et château de Versailles : avec les bosquets, et fontaines, tels quils sont a present : levez sur les lieux, dessinez et gravez en 1714 et 1715 : dédiez au Roi ...

Publication:

Paris : chez Demortain pont Nôtre-Dame, aux belles Estampes, [1715 or 1716?]

Description:

[2], approximately 100 leaves of plates : 57 illustrations (some folded), maps, plans ; 56 cm

Notes:
57 etched and engraved plates (including title-pages), most of which are inlaid to fit the large volume size. 23 of the plates are double-page. Plates by Antoine, Maurice Baquoy, Blondel, P. Menant, Raymond after Girard Fontainier, G. Scotin after Delamonce, Lucas, Fonbonne, P. de Rochefort, A. Herisset after Girard Fontainier, and others. Extra plates are as listed: 1. Vuë, et Perspective du bas de l'Orangerie du Château de Versailles, et de la grande Piece d'Eau qui est en face, que l'on appelle communement piece des Suissez, by Antoine after P. le Pautre, chez Demortain (between plates 14 and 15). 2. Two plates are numbered 32 - Bassin de la Girandole, dans un des Bosquets des Jardins de Versailles and Bassin Dauphin, dans un des Bosquets des Jardins de Versailles. 3. Vuë du Chateâu Roy de Trianon, dans le parc de Versailles, by P. le Pautre (between plates 33 and 34). These extra plates appear after plate 38: 1. Veüe de la Machine de Marly, chez Demortain. 2. Profil de la Machine de Marly, coupé selon sa largeur, by C. Inselin Geographe, chez Geruais. 3. Veüe de la Machine de Marly, chez Geruais. Le Pautre's Les plans, coupes, profils, et elevations... was commonly bound with this work. In later years they were published as one work. In this particular edition it is bound between the first and second plate of Mortain's Les plans, profils, et elevations...along with three unnumbered plates. The extra plates are as listed: 1. Vuë, et Perspective de la Chapelle du Château Royal de Versailles, Paris, chez Mortain. 2. Trophées de la Chapelle du Château Royal de Versailles, Paris, chez Demortain. 3. Trophées de la Chapelle du Château Royal de Versailles, Paris, chez Demortain [different from above plate].
Designs by various artists including Pierre Lepautre; includes also plans and views of Marly and the Trianon.
Le Pautre, Pierre (1660-1744), "Les plans, coupes, profils et elevations de la Chapelle du Chasteau Royal de Versailles," Paris, circa 1716. OS8

Summary:

See: The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection: French Books..., 361-364.

Subject:

Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Pictorial works Early works to 1800.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Château de Marly-le-Roi (Marly-le-Roi, France)
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Ouvrages illustrés Ouvrages avant 1800.
Grand Trianon (Versailles, France)
Versailles (France) Pictorial works Early works to 1800.
Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France) Pictorial works Early works to 1800.
Jardins de Versailles (Versailles, France) Ouvrages illustrés Ouvrages avant 1800.

Added entries:

Demortain, Gilles, publisher.
Lepautre, Pierre, 1652?-1716, artist.

Beaux edifice de France

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 142174
Call No.: 3381
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 142175
Call No.: W342
Status: Available