Cérémonie du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante D’Espagne dans la Chapelle du Château de Versailles le XXIII Février M.D. CCXLV.
date: label: Date
content: 1756
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Director of Production
content: Michel de Bonneval, French, 17..-1766
label: Office of
content: Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Interior view inside the chapel of the Palace of Versailles during the marriage ceremony of Louis Dauphin of France and Marie Thérèse of Spain. Highly decorated interior space with high ceilings and long drapery; two colonnaded levels, gallery, mezzanine, and painted domed ceiling. At all levels, large crowds of attending figures, both men and women in fine dress. The dauphin and his bride stand in center middle ground viewed from behind, a bishop officiating the ceremony stands behind them. Marie Thérèse wears a dress with a wide panier, Louis takes her hand. Behind them, in the foreground, two empty throne chairs before a table with kneeling cushions and open Bibles, the books indicating an earlier part of the ceremony. Additional cushioned stools surround at left and right.
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: 1921-6-205-5
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