Office of:

Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France  Search this

Director of Production:

Michel de Bonneval, French, 17..-1766  Search this

Sculptor:

Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754  Search this

Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758  Search this

Designer:

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790  Search this

Print Maker:

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790  Search this

Publisher:

Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France  Search this

Medium:

Etching and engraving on laid paper

Object Name:

Bound print

Type:

Bound print

Made in:

Paris, France

Published in:

Paris, France

Date:

1756

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Interior view inside the Equestrian Academy of Versailles theater, decorated for the presentation of the ballet “La Princesse de Navarre” 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. The stage in the center background, filled with actors and flanked by rows of columns. Audience members crowd the main level and occupy two levels of opera boxes at right and left sides, with decorated friezes and sculptures. At the center foreground, royal subjects seated upon thrones, viewed from behind, facing the stage. 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.

Credit Line:

Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council

Accession Number:

1921-6-205-6

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4265fd7d5-6e48-4494-8a6a-ac534f30c1bb

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1921-6-205-6