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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.338
People
Adam Perelle, French (1638 - 1695)
Title
Hôtel de Ville
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Recueil de vues de Paris
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1670
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370352

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 22 × 29.9 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.1 × 37.3 cm (10 11/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, brown ink: 28
  • inscription: in plate, below image: L’HOSTEL DE VILLE scis dans la Place de Greve fut commence an 1533. Sous le Regne de François 1.r par / d’Henry le Grand, la façade est fort riche d’Architecture, la Cour est en 4. Portiques et l’Escalier quoy que petit est surprenant dans sa construction la Grande Salle / est tres ample et ornéedes Portraits des Prevosts des Marchans, et Echevins, Cet Hostel s’appelloit avant sa restauration le Parloir aux Bourgeois et la Maison des Piliers. / A Paris Chez N Langlois, rue s.t Jacques à la Victoire. Avec Privilege du Roy

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[R. E. Lewis & Daughter Original Prints, San Rafael], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 2006, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.338
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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