id: 446712 accession number: 2021.168 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.168 updated: 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1677 creation date earliest: 1677 creation date latest: 1677 current location: creditline: L. E. Holden Fund copyright: --- culture: France technique: etching and engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sébastien Le Clerc I (French, 1637–1714) - artist --- 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 edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: in graphite, recto, lower right: [illegible] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: --- 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