Vue du Chateau de Belle-Vue [three elevations] [engravings]
P&E L1968.1299f
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Title
Vue du Chateau de Belle-Vue [three elevations] [engravings]
Description
3 hand-colored prints; 26 x 49 cm. on sheets 36 x 56 cm.; mounted on cardboard.
Call Number
P&E L1968.1299f
Note
Three drawings of the Chateau de Belle-Vue on the Seine near Paris. The three drawings represent three elevations of the house and gardens and were presented to Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, who built the house. Her coat of arms appears in the title on each engraving. The full titles on the engravings are as follows:
(1) Vue du Chateau de Belle-Vue pris du Cote de la Cour. Presentee a Madame la Marquis de Pompadour.
(2) Autre vue du Chateau de Belle-Vue. Prise de la grande terrasse aux orangers regardant St. Cloud. Presentee a Madame la Marquis de Pompadour.
(3) Autre vue du Chateau de Belle-Vue, Prise du bord de la rivere proche le punt de seve. Presentee a Madame la Marquis de Pompadour.
Below the titles on all three engravings it reads: a Paris cher Rigaud rue St. Jacques proche le rue des Mathurins. Par son tres humble at tres obeissant serviteur Rigaud.
The engravings are signed J. B. Rigaud, but might have been drawn by Jacques Rigaud, 1681-1754, who established himself on rue St. Jacques and started the publication " Les maisons Royales de France". However the publication was completed by Jean-Baptiste Rigaud, whose initials would seem to indicated that he is the author of these engravings.
The engravings are the gift of John R. M. Taylor, of the Virginia Society. They were received with the following note: "These three pictures are relics of the French Revolution. The Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, built Belle Vue near Paris on the Seine and these pictures must have been make a few years afterwards as the plantations of trees have little growth. She died in 1764. Some ardent Republicans during the revolution, kept the pictures but mutilated her coat of arms and changed "Marquise" to Maquarelle" which is female pimp. Some years ago these were bought in Paris by Stanford White, the architect of the firm of McKun, Meade & White. He gave them to his son at Princeton. Leaving there, he gave them to Donald Rodgers who also going to live with his family gave them to me and I pass them to the Cincinnati for one of the bedrooms in the House. 5 March 1946. John R. M. Taylor, Virginia Society"
The engravings are signed J. B. Rigaud, but might have been drawn by Jacques Rigaud, 1681-1754, who established himself on rue St. Jacques and started the publication " Les maisons Royales de France". However the publication was completed by Jean-Baptiste Rigaud, whose initials would seem to indicated that he is the author of these engravings.
The engravings are the gift of John R. M. Taylor, of the Virginia Society. They were received with the following note: "These three pictures are relics of the French Revolution. The Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, built Belle Vue near Paris on the Seine and these pictures must have been make a few years afterwards as the plantations of trees have little growth. She died in 1764. Some ardent Republicans during the revolution, kept the pictures but mutilated her coat of arms and changed "Marquise" to Maquarelle" which is female pimp. Some years ago these were bought in Paris by Stanford White, the architect of the firm of McKun, Meade & White. He gave them to his son at Princeton. Leaving there, he gave them to Donald Rodgers who also going to live with his family gave them to me and I pass them to the Cincinnati for one of the bedrooms in the House. 5 March 1946. John R. M. Taylor, Virginia Society"
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