Le Parterre de l'Orangerie de Chantilly
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.41(180)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Le Parterre de l'Orie de Chantilly** a captivating etching from the 168s by French engravers Adam Perelle and Nicolas Langis, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints department (Rogers Fund, 1920). This print vividly captures the formal parterre garden of the Orangerie at Château de Chantilly, a estate north of Paris. The intricate showcases symmetrical flowerbeds, elegant fountains, stately buildings, and tiny human figures strolling amid the lush greenery, evoking the opulent world of 17th-century aristocracy. Created during the reign of Louis XIV, the artwork refl...
About the Artist
Adam Perelle|Nicolas Langlois · 1640–1695
French, Paris 1640–1695 Paris