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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770–1800 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1805 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France technique: etching and engraving, hand colored department: Prints collection: Prints type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt (German, 1710–1820) - artist German painter and copperplate engraver, active 2d half 18th century * Jacques Rigaud (French, 1681–1754) --- measurements: Image and Sheet: 31.9 x 42.4 cm (12 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 2, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- 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 vue d’optique,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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- 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