La Colonnade

Details

Jacques Rigaud (Marseilles 1681-1754 Paris)
La Colonnade
with number '37'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash
8 7/8 x 18¾ in. (226 x 474 mm.)

Provenance

The mounter's mark for J.-B. Glomy (L. 1120).
Jean Bloch; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21 May 1957, lot 16k.
with J. Kugel, Paris, 1996.

Engraved

By the artist for his Vues des bosquets des jardins de Versailles in the Maisons royales de France, 1730, pl. 2.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The magnificent Colonnade was designed by Hardouin-Mansart in 1684, replacing the Bosquets des sources de Versailles finished only two years previously. The peristyle of white Carrara marble was set with 32 polychrome columns interspersed with wide-lipped, shallow-basin fountains each sending a jet of water sixteen feet into the air. Girardon's sculpture of The Rape of Proserpine, originally created for the Parterre d'Eau, was set at the centre of the garden.

More from Old Master and 19th Century Drawings

View All