Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV.
date: label: Date
content: 1756
name: label: Office of
content: Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France
label: Director of Production
content: Michel de Bonneval, French, 17..-1766
label: Sculptor
content: Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754
label: Sculptor
content: Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758
label: Designer
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Interior view inside the Equestrian Academy of Versailles theater, decorated for the presentation of the ballet “La Princesse de Navarre” performed to celebrate the marriage of Louis Dauphin of France to Marie Thérèse of Spain. Highly decorated interior space with high painted ceilings, from which hang many ornate chandeliers. The stage in the center background, filled with actors and flanked by rows of columns. Audience members crowd the main level and occupy two levels of opera boxes at right and left sides, with decorated friezes and sculptures. At the center foreground, royal subjects seated upon thrones, viewed from behind, facing the stage. Composition is elaborately framed with a Greek key motif, a winged escutcheon at upper center with figural groups and putti surrounding. At lower center, coat of arms of France and Spain; putti hold draped banners at either side which contain the plate text.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-205-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper