Design for the Fireworks Display in Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin in 1781

Design for the Fireworks Display in Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin in 1781 by Louis Gustave Taraval|Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux

Medium

Pen and black ink, with gray, brown, and colored wash and gouache

Dimensions

14 7/8 x 23 3/4 in. (37.8 x 60.3 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965

Accession Number

65.607

Tags

FountainsFireworks

About the Artist

Louis Gustave Taraval|Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux · 17381794

Taraval served as inspector for the Bâtiments du Roi. According to Macmillan, he was influential in the publication of several important architects, including Pierre Contant D'Ivry and Jean François Chalgrin.

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