Links and Resources

Princeton University Digital Library

Robert Nanteuil Collection (portraits)

Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Costumes français sous Louis XIV (portraits and fashion plates)

Pérelle family, Vues des plus beaux lieux de France et d'Italie (topographical prints, including Versailles)

La Grotte de Versailles (Grotto)

La Grande Galerie de Versailles (Hall of Mirrors)

Le Grand Escalier de Versailles (Ambassadors' Staircase, and other ceiling paintings by Le Brun and Mignard)

Plans, vues et ornements de Versailles (Plans, views, fountains, sculptures)

Boyceau, Traité du jardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art

 

Other digital collections

Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Gallica digital library (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Renaissance and Early Modern Festival Books (British Library)

Prints after Poussin (Getty Research Institute)

Rijksmuseum

 

Websites

Versailles - Past and Present (juxtapositions of engravings from this exhibition with present-day photographs)

Château de Versailles (official website)

Centre de recherche du château de Versailles (research center)

La Galerie des Glaces - Catalogue iconographique

Versailles - Décor sculpté extérieur

Centre de musique baroque de Versailles

Musée-promenade de Marly

Chalcographie du Louvre (French national copperplate repository)

Printing the Grand Manner (exhibition on Charles Le Brun and monumental prints, Los Angeles 2010)

Le Nôtre in perspectives (exhibition, Versailles 2013)

A Kingdom of Images / Images du Grand Siècle (exhibition on French prints in the age of Louis XIV, Los Angeles / Paris 2015)

Cour de France (Studies and documents about the French court)

Labyrinth of Fables (3D virtual reality walk through the Labyrinthe de Versailles)

 

Videos

Concert in Firestone Library's Main Gallery - Les Plaisirs de Versailles: Music for the Court of Louis XIV

YouTube - Château de Versailles (official video channel)

Versailles 3D (history of the palace and gardens) 

Versailles (Pathé-Baby film, ca. 1925)

La Chalcographie du Louvre (copperplate collection and printing workshop)