Décoration du bal paré donné par le roy le XXIV février M.D.CCXLV à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France, avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, Versailles
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 elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Interior view inside the theater at Versailles, decorated for the presentation of a ballet 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. Dancers and actors occupy the floor at center, surrounded by crowds of figures on all sides. Elaborate niches at the sides and rear of the space with large sculptures, large windows in between. At the center foreground, royal subjects seated upon thrones, viewed from behind, facing the performers. 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: 1921-6-205-7
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