View of the Park st Versailles: Landscape with Memorial Column and Grove of Trees
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
Dimensions
44.5 × 61.4 cm (17 9/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113758
Art Historical Context
Pierre-Antoine Mongin’s *View of the Park at: Landscape with Memorial Column Grove of Trees* captures majestic formality of France’s most iconic royal gardens. Created in black chalk heightened with white on blue laid paper, this undated drawing (approximately 44.5 × 61.4 cm) offers a serene vista of Versailles’ expansive park, featuring a prominent memorial column amid a structured grove of trees. As a French draftsman active in the late 18th century,in specialized in precise architectural and landscape views, documenting the splendor of Louis XIV’s opulent estate for patrons and collectors. ...
About the Artist
Pierre Antoine Mongin · 1761–1827
Pierre-Antoine Mongin (1761–1827) was a prolific French painter, engraver, and designer whose career bridged the late Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Born in Paris, little is known of his early life beyond his formal training at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture from 1782 to 1785, where he studied under the esteemed history painters Noël Hallé, Gabriel-François Doyen, and Françoi...