Labirinte de Versailles
Contributors: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Publisher: De Lespine exc.
Published: 1682
Place of publication: Amsterdam]
Language: dut
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Illustrations; Fountains; Labyrinths; Maze gardens; Buildings, structures; Labyrinthe de Versailles; Aesop's fables
Other titles: Labyrinthe de Versailles.; Doolhof van Versailles.
Work titles: Labyrinthe de Versailles
Notes: Title and imprint from plan (first leaf): Plan du labirinte de Versailles.

Swidde has re-worked the engravings of fountains originally by Sébastien Le Clerc, first published in Paris, 1677 with a text by Charles Perrault and quatrains by Isaac de Benserade detailing the fables from Aesop depicted in the fountains ornamenting the labyrinth.  The labyrinth was destroyed in 1774, and is now the site of the Bosquet de la Reine.

An edition of Swidde's engraving of the Labyrinth apparently appeared in Amsterdam published by Visscher in 1682 with text in four languages: French, English, German and Dutch.  Kramm reports a Visscher edition with a Dutch title Het Doolhof van Versailles with 39 plates dating it 1682.

BN. Inventaire fonds français, XVIIe s., IX, 2, 2818-2858

Jombert, C.-A. Cat. rais. S. Le Clerc, I, 134

Kramm, C. Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders (1974), II, p. 1599