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Engraved, as recorded, for the Voyage pittoresque de La France written by the Marquis de Laborde, Beguilet and Guetard and published in twelve volumes between 1784 and 1796.
Two views of Versailles engraved for the same publication are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, nos. 179-180, illustrated, and two further views of the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, were sold at Christie's, 16 April 1991, lot 234 and 2 July 1991, lot 321, illustrated.
Meudon was confused in the Defer-Dumesnil and Beurdeley sales with the Château de Madrid, near Bagatelle which had been built by King François I but was destroyed at the end of the 18th Century. Louis Moreau executed a drawing of the château of Madrid illustrated in G. Wildenstein, Louis Moreau, Paris, 1923, no. 12.
The Chateau de Meudon was also built by François I but was several times by the Duchesse d'Etampes, in 1552 by the Cardinal de Lorraine, in the 17th Century by Abel Servien, and by the Grand Dauphin.
Lespinasse was an amateur who, only late in his life, in 1786 entered the Acédemie as a landscape painter.
The milestone in the foreground of the present drawing belongs to a type that disappeared in the course of the French revolution.
Two views of Versailles engraved for the same publication are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, nos. 179-180, illustrated, and two further views of the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, were sold at Christie's, 16 April 1991, lot 234 and 2 July 1991, lot 321, illustrated.
Meudon was confused in the Defer-Dumesnil and Beurdeley sales with the Château de Madrid, near Bagatelle which had been built by King François I but was destroyed at the end of the 18th Century. Louis Moreau executed a drawing of the château of Madrid illustrated in G. Wildenstein, Louis Moreau, Paris, 1923, no. 12.
The Chateau de Meudon was also built by François I but was several times by the Duchesse d'Etampes, in 1552 by the Cardinal de Lorraine, in the 17th Century by Abel Servien, and by the Grand Dauphin.
Lespinasse was an amateur who, only late in his life, in 1786 entered the Acédemie as a landscape painter.
The milestone in the foreground of the present drawing belongs to a type that disappeared in the course of the French revolution.