File:Bound Print, Décoration du bal paré donné par le roy le XXIV février M.D.CCXLV à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France, avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, Versailles (Decoration of the (CH 18221253-3).jpg
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Engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder. Engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger |
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English: Bound Print, Décoration du bal paré donné par le roy le XXIV février M.D.CCXLV à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France, avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, Versailles (Decoration of the grand ball on the occasion of the wedding of the Dauphin and Marie Thérèse of Spain, Versailles), 1756 |
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English: Interior view inside the theater at Versailles, decorated for the presentation of a ballet performed to celebrate the marriage of Louis Dauphin of France to Marie Thérèse of Spain. Highly decorated interior space with high painted ceilings, from which hang many ornate chandeliers. Dancers and actors occupy the floor at center, surrounded by crowds of figures on all sides. Elaborate niches at the sides and rear of the space with large sculptures, large windows in between. At the center foreground, royal subjects seated upon thrones, viewed from behind, facing the performers. Composition is elaborately framed with a Greek key motif, a winged escutcheon at upper center with figural groups and putti surrounding. At lower center, coat of arms of France and Spain; putti hold draped banners at either side which contain the plate text. |
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1756 date QS:P571,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | etching and engraving on paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q1129820 |
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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design |
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1921-6-205-7 |
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Credit line | Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | Catalog Photo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- 1756 works
- Prints of France in the Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- 18th-century engravings of balls
- France in the 1740s
- Dance in the 1740s
- Events in Versailles
- Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu
- Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder
- Balls in France
- Marshalled France (modern) and Navarre