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Premiere journée marche du Roy, et ses chevaliers ...

Title
Premiere journée [graphic] : marche du Roy, et ses chevaliers ... / Israel Silvestre, del, et sculp. et ex. cum privil[egio] Regis.
Author
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.
Publication
[1673?]

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Still imageSupervised use *MGZFY Sil I Pla 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd
Description
1 print : etching, b&w; 35 x 49 cm., plate mark 28 x 42 cm.
Summary
Scene from an entertainment presented at Versailles in May 1664. In a grand procession that includes a pageant car, King Louis XIV and the nobles of his court, mounted on horseback, circle through the specially designed gardens.
Donor/Sponsor
Dance Committee Purchase Fund.
Alternative Title
Festes et divertissements du roy à Versailles
Subjects
Genre/Form
Etchings.
Note
  • Caption title.
  • Caption subtitle reads in full: Marche du Roy, et ses chevaliers avec toutes leurs suittes au tour du Camp, de la course de bague representant Roger, et les austres Chevaliers enchantez dans l'Isle d'Alcine.
  • Probably a plate from Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, ou, Les festes et divertissements du Roy à Versailles, published in Paris by L'Imprimerie royale, 1673-1679.
  • For more information on Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, see: Gellman, Lola B. and Wein, Jo Ann, The four arts in the Baroque: an exhibition of prints and books, New York, Queensborough Community College, 1982.
Funding (note)
  • Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Biography (note)
  • Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée was a seven-day series of entertainments held at Versailles, beginning on May 7, 1664. Given in honor of the queen mother, Anne of Austria, and Queen Marie Thérèse, it provided a pretext to display the power and wealth of the court of Louis XIV.
Call Number
*MGZFY Sil I Pla 1
OCLC
825553759
Author
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.
Title
Premiere journée [graphic] : marche du Roy, et ses chevaliers ... / Israel Silvestre, del, et sculp. et ex. cum privil[egio] Regis.
Imprint
[1673?]
Funding
Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Biography
Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée was a seven-day series of entertainments held at Versailles, beginning on May 7, 1664. Given in honor of the queen mother, Anne of Austria, and Queen Marie Thérèse, it provided a pretext to display the power and wealth of the court of Louis XIV.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder
Research Call Number
*MGZFY Sil I Pla 1
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