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17 th Century Hand-colored Etching, the Palais des Tuileries, Paris, Israel Silvestre (1621-1691)
‘Veue du Palais, des Tuilleries du coste du Jardin, Prospectus Palatij vulgo dicti les Thuilleries, qua Bortes spectat.’ – View of the Palace, the Tuileries from the side of the Garden. A view of the Palace commonly called les Thuilleries, from which Bortes looks. Hand-colored etching, 18th Century. Mounted in recent framing.
Provenance is the Cordts Mansion in Kingston, NY, the 1874 home of the John H. & Elizabeth Cordts family for more than 100 years. Born in germany, the family arrived in the united states in the late 1830’s, settled in kingston in the 1850’s, and was well established as a brick maker and local business leader by the time the homes construction was completed in 1874. Hunt Slonem, noted artist, purchased the property in 2001, both restoring and expanding upon the interior and collection.
The tuileries palace and gardens take their name from the tile factories which previously stood on the site where Queen Catherine de Medici built the Palais des Tuileries in 1564. André Le Nôtre, the famous gardener of King Louis XIV, re-landscaped the gardens in 1664 to give them their current french formal garden style.
Israel Silvestre (French, 1621 – 1691) was a prolific french draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives of famous buildings. Orphaned at an early age, he was taken in by his uncle in paris, Israel Henriet, an etcher and print-seller, and friend of Jacques Callot. Silvestre travelled widely in france, spain and italy, and developed his sketches as etchings, which were sold singly and in series. His work, especially of venetian subjects published in the 1660’s, influenced eighteenth-century painters of views such as Luca Carlevaris and Canaletto, who adapted his compositions.
In 1662 he was appointed dessinateur et graveur du roi and in 1673 he was appointed drawing-master to Louis, le grand dauphin. From 1668 he was granted workshop space in the galleries of the louvre, where the practice of housing eminent artists and craftsmen was a tradition that was originated under Henri IV. His atelier was large: he had at least two pupils who had separate careers as engravers, François Noblesse and Meunier. In 1670 Charles Le Brun recommended him for membership in the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. At his death he left a large collection of drawings, more than a thousand engravings, and other works of art to his sons, whose own artistic tastes he had nurtured. The family collection was sold at auction in 1810.
An example of this etching is in the collection of the musee carnavalet historie de paris.
Sight – 12" high x 39" wide. Frame – 19 3/4" high x 47" wide.
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Condition: Not examined out of frame, though it presents as very good. Frame is in very good condition.
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