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accession number:	2021.168
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.168
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Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres qui couvrent le fronton de la principale entrée du Louvre, 1677. Sébastien Le Clerc I (French, 1637–1714). Etching and engraving; platemark: 37.7 x 62.7 cm (14 13/16 x 24 11/16 in.); sheet: 51.2 x 70.5 cm (20 3/16 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 2021.168

title:				Representation des Machines qui ont servi à eslever les deux grandes pierres qui couvrent le fronton de la principale entrée du Louvre
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creation date:			1677
creation date earliest:		1677
creation date latest:		1677
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creditline:			L. E. Holden Fund
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culture:	France
technique:	etching and engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Sébastien Le Clerc I (French, 1637–1714)  - artist

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measurements: Platemark: 37.7 x 62.7 cm (14 13/16 x 24 11/16 in.); Sheet: 51.2 x 70.5 cm (20 3/16 x 27 3/4 in.)
state of the work:	IV/IV
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	in graphite, recto, lower right: [illegible]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact:
King Louis XIV made improvements to the living quarters of the Louvre Palace as seen in this 1677 print, but soon abandoned Paris for his palace at Versailles, where he lived until his death in 1715.

digital description:
Sébastien Leclerc’s etching showing the construction of one facade of the Louvre Palace in Paris shows the machines used to drag and raise a sixty-foot-long stone to cover both sides of a pediment. Leclerc shows a machine in the left foreground that drags the large stone while in the background, at the top of the pediment and an elaborate scaffolding, cranes can be seen raising and placing stone. Leclerc was among a number of printmakers who worked for King Louis XIV, helping to document his many building campaigns and art collections.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fuhring, Peter, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach. A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715. 2015.
	page number: 	24, pp. 104-105
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.168/2021.168_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.168/2021.168_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.168/2021.168_full.tif