id:			380077
accession number:	2020.162
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.162
updated:		2023-01-12 02:09:54.908000

Vue du Chateau et d'une Partie de la Ville de Versailles, c. 1770–1800. Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt (German, 1710–1820), after Jacques Rigaud (French, 1681–1754). Etching and engraving, hand colored; image and sheet: 31.9 x 42.4 cm (12 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.162

title:				Vue du Chateau et d'une Partie de la Ville de Versailles
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creation date:			c. 1770–1800
creation date earliest:		1765
creation date latest:		1805
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture:	France
technique:	etching and engraving, hand colored
department:	Prints
collection:	Prints
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt (German, 1710–1820)  - artist
German painter and copperplate engraver, active 2d half 18th century
* Jacques Rigaud (French, 1681–1754) 

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 31.9 x 42.4 cm (12 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
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fun fact:
The text at the top of this print is printed in reverse so that it would be legible when looking through a special viewing device consisting of a convex lens and a mirror.

digital description:
This perspective view (often called a <em>vue d’optique</em>,or optical view) is an example of a popular art and entertainment format during the second half of the 1700s in Europe. The hand-colored etching and engraving was made to be viewed with a special viewing device consisting of a convex lens and a mirror, so that scene appeared to be a three-dimensional image. Here, the viewer can enjoy a perspective view of the French Palace of Versailles. Such views—which were only made for a short time and largely disappeared with the advent of photography—appealed to both elite audiences, who viewed collections of images with their own viewing devices in private drawing rooms, and popular audiences, for whom they were street entertainment for a minimal fee.

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.162/2020.162_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.162/2020.162_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.162/2020.162_full.tif