Bronze Garden Vase with Two Dragons from the Gardens of Versailles

1673 or after

Not on view

Design for a large garden vase in the shape of an urn, executed in bronze for the gardens of Versailles after designs by Claude Ballin in about 1665. Five vases were reproduced in etchings by Jean Le Pautre in the following decade, with individual prints dated 1672 and 1673. Through the prints, Ballin's garden vases became popular throughout Europe and are known in numerous seventeenth- and eighteenth-century copies. This drawing was acquired with two others by the same hand. Two follow the known vases from Versailles, but a third sheet (2014.483) shows an additional design that is not represented by the prints, and may or may not have been executed.

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Bronze Garden Vase with Two Dragons from the Gardens of Versailles
Artist: After Claude Ballin the Elder (French, 1615–1678)
Artist: After (?) Jean Le Pautre (French, Paris 1618–1682 Paris)
Date: 1673 or after
Medium: Pen and ink with gray wash over ruled lines in graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (27 × 18.9 cm)
Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014
Object Number: 2014.482
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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