Galerie des Glaces at Versailles

Sébastien Leclerc I

1684 · Etching; fourth state · Drawings and Prints

This work shows the interior of the Hall of Mirrors shortly after its painted ceiling celebrating Louis XIV's triumphs was completed by Charles Le Brun. The chandeliers, the tables placed between the arched-topped mirrors, and the flanking tubs for the orange trees were made of solid silver. All the silver furnishings at Versailles were melted down in 1789 in order to finance the king's military campaigns against the League of Augsburg.

Artist

Sébastien Leclerc I

Date

1684

Medium

Etching; fourth state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953