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Claude-Henri Watelet
(28th Aug, 1718 - 12th Jan, 1786)
Louis-Florent de Vallière (1719-1775) gouverneur général de Saint-Domingue
1755
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Nous contacter au préalable pour la publicité. Photo (C) Château de Versailles, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image château de Versailles
Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/
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Keywords:
personnalité (époque de Louis XV)
époque de l'empire colonial français (Saint-Domingue)
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About the artwork
Title:
Louis-Florent de Vallière (1719-1775) gouverneur général de Saint-Domingue
Periods:
18th century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
etching
engraving (print)
Dimensions:
202 x 147
Inventory number:
LP65.35.1
Detail:
album Louis-Philippe
Location:
Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
About the author(s)
Author:
Claude-Henri Watelet
Also known as:
amateur Watelet
Claude Henri Watelet
Born:
28th Aug, 1718
Dead:
12th Jan, 1786
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Claude-Henri Watelet
(28 August 1718 – 12 January 1786) was a rich French
fermier-général
who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens. His
Essai sur les jardins
, 1774, firmly founded on English ideas expressed by Thomas Whately, introduced the English landscape garden to France, as the
jardin Anglois
…
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