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

Louis Gustave Taraval | Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux

1781

Medium

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

Tags

FountainsFireworks

Dimensions

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

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Louis Gustave Taraval

1738–1794 • SwedenFrance

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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