Veue de la cour des Fontaines de Fontaine Beleau
Israël Silvestre
1666
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 37.4 x 49.8 cm (14 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1995.16.1
About the Artist
Israël Silvestre
Israël Silvestre (1621–1691) was one of the most accomplished and prolific topographical etchers of seventeenth-century France, a draughtsman whose meticulous views of European cities, royal châteaux, and ancient ruins served simultaneously as artistic documents and instruments of royal prestige. Born on 13 August 1621 in Nancy, Lorraine, Silvestre was orphaned at an early age and taken in by his ...