This and 4 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Festival Prints.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville

This is a Print. It was designed by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni and published by François Baillieul and Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. It is dated 1739 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower center: A Paris chez Baillieul Lainé Geographe rüe Galande Place Maubert Et chez LeBas graveur du Roy rüe de la Harpe.

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, lower center : Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville./ Elevé dans la Place de Grève sur les dessin et Conduite du Chevalier Servandony, Architecte et Peintre du Roy, par/ ordre de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat Prevôt des Marchands Et de Mrs. Les Echevins de Ville, en Rejoüissance/ de la Paix faite entre l’Empire, L’Espagne et La France, et publiée le Iere Juin 1739. Avec Privilege du Roy; inscribed in graphite, lower right margin: 1/ 1921-6-235 (1)

Cite this object as

Print, Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville; Designed by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni (Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766); Published by François Baillieul (French, 1697? – 1754), Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707–83); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-235-1

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