First Day: procession of the King and his knights, from a different angle, doing the recitations of Apollo and the Four Ages.

People:

Israël Silvestre (role unspecified)

Title:

First Day: procession of the King and his knights, from a different angle, doing the recitations of Apollo and the Four Ages.

Date:

1673

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Technique and media:

Etching

Dimensions:

plate mark: 27.9 x 42.2 cm sheet: 41.8 x 53.0 cm

Reference number:

DR1984:1447

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

oneof nine folding illustrations a to Israel Silvestre's text of ninety-one pagesdescribing three days of festivities at Versailles (text lacking here)

Inscription:

inscribed - Premierejournée (centre bottom), Comparse du Roy et des ses chevaliers, avec toutesleurs suittes, dans le Camp de la course de bague, pendant l'ouverture/de lafeste, faite par les recits d'Apollon et des quatres Siecles, assis sur ungrand char de triomphe (in two lines on either side of "Premiere Journée),Israel Silvestre, deline, et sculpsit Parisiis (lower left), No. 3 (lowerright)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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