Les Dômes

Details

Jacques Rigaud (Marseilles 1681-1754 Paris)
Les Dômes
with number '44'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash
8 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. (220 x 473 mm.)

Provenance

The mounter's mark for J.-B. Glomy (L. 1120).
Jean Bloch; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21 May 1957, lot 16r.
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. 9.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The Bosquet des Dômes in the North Western sector of the gardens was originally designed by Le Nôtre, but takes its name from the two pavilions added by Hardouin-Mansart in 1677. These have since disappeared but the bas-reliefs around the balustrade by Girardon, depicting the coats of arms of the nations of Europe, remain.

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