Lot 203
  • 203

After Jacques-François Blondel

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • After Jacques-François Blondel
  • Vue perspective de l'interieur d'une des salles de la place de Louis Le Grand
Engraving, 1745, a very good impression from Fêtes publiques données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin [avec Marie-Thérèse, Infanta d'Espana]; with three other plates from the same set, good impressions; and Place Louis Le Grand, engraving by A. Benoist, 1747, from Fêtes publiques données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin [avec la princesse Marie-Joseph de Saxe],  various watermarks, with margins, with the usual central vertical fold reinforced (mainly visible verso), Salle du Carousel with two small tears at right edge of image, Place de Louis le Grand with lower right margin corner missing (not affecting the image), slight paper discoloration, surface dirt, occasional folds and other minor defects

Condition

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