VERSAILLES - Lot 3

VERSAILLES "Illuminations du Palais et des Jardins de Versailles / V/ Nocturnae Illuminationes, vasis statuisque incluso igne pellucentibus/ad Palatij Versaliani fenestras, et per omnes hortorum areas et xystos apté dispositis". "Le Pautre sculps 1679" for Jean Lepautre (1618-1682) In a gilded wood baguette frame.sight size 29.5 x 41.4 cm With frame 41 x 53 cm (margins incomplete, folds, restorations) N.B. The king's carriage in the foreground passes the illuminated Latone basin and the perspective towards the Château de Versailles, above which the sky is ablaze with fireworks. This plate is taken from André Félibien's "Relation de la fête donnée à Versailles le 18 juillet 1668", and corresponds to the fifth day of the festivities.