Sébastien Leclerc I
Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres couvrent le fronton de la principal entreé du Louvre (The Building of the Louvre, Paris)

Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres couvrent le fronton de la principal entreé du Louvre (The Building of the Louvre, Paris)

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Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres couvrent le fronton de la principal entreé du Louvre (The Building of the Louvre, Paris)
ArtistFrench, 1637–1714
Titles
  • Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres couvrent le fronton de la principal entreé du Louvre (The Building of the Louvre, Paris)
  • from Les vues des maison Royales et du Villes conquises par Louis XIV
Date1677
MediumEtching on laid paper
Dimensionsplate: 15 × 24 5/8 in. (38.1 × 62.5 cm)
sheet: 20 7/8 × 27 1/2 in. (53 × 59.7 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2000.24
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance[Susan Schulman Printseller, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2000.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
S. le Clerc fe.

Icon Machinarum quibus subleuati sunt ingentes duo Lapides tympano majoris portae Luparae incumbentes.
Catalogue raisonnéHennin 4940

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