France
Antique prints of France
Our antique prints of France span more than three centuries, from 1612 to 1940. The earliest are seventeenth-century copper engravings by Pierre Aveline of Versailles and the château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye; the nineteenth century brings steel engravings by Rouargue and the workshop of Auguste Lemaître, including the port of Bordeaux and the Val d'Azun in the Pyrenees.
Original drawings complete the section, such as a pen study of Chambéry in Savoy and a pencil sketch of Saint-Léonard near Boulogne. Paris has its own sub-category.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
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Paris
Antique prints of Paris
This section holds our antique prints of Paris and Versailles, from 1687 to 1940. Pierre Aveline's copper engravings of the gardens of Versailles under Louis XIV open the group; nineteenth-century steel engravings after Rouargue and Lalaisse follow, with the Hôtel de Cluny, the Bourse and a general view of the city, and an 1845 print of the Samaritaine pump demolished in 1813.
Later etchings, among them a signed view of the Medici fountain in the Luxembourg gardens, show the city as artists saw it in the early twentieth century.
All pieces are period originals unless stated otherwise, with a technical description and measurements.
