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View
and Plan of the Vauxhall at
the Foire Saint-Germain, 1772
The Household Accounts(L’Śconome), 1754
The
Palazzo Barberini,
from the Vedute di Roma, 1749
from the Vedute of Rome, 1761
Sculpture:
Workshop for Plaster Casting,
Tools and Methods, 1751-1772
Sculpture:
Various Procedures
for Working on Marble and Tools, 1751-1772
LE
ROUGE, French, 18th century;
after SAMSON-NICOLAS LENOIR, LE ROMAIN,
French, 1733-1810
View and Plan of the Vauxhall
at the Foire Saint-Germain
This
print may document an actual location for the pleasures and pastimes
of French society, providing a parallel to Vauxhall Gardens in England.
On the other hand, it could merely be an illustration of
a speculative project by the architect Lenoir, le Romain. It remains
unclear whether or not a French Vauxhall was ever built.
The top portion provides an interior view of an eighteenth-century ‘spectacle’ depicted in an extravagant Rococo style. The image is supplemented with the architectural floor plans of this location in the bottom portion of the print. The Rococo style combines with the rationality of the floor plan to represent the existence of varying discourses in the eighteenth-century. Like the architectural prints of Piranesi, the image incorporates a legend to help the viewer identify the various parts of the drawing.
