Research Catalog

Title

Visitors to Versailles : from Louis XIV to the French Revolution / edited by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Bertrand Rondot.

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]
• New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.
• Rondot, Bertrand
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

xxi, 369 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Based on contemporary documents and works of art, the book explores the experiences of visitors to the palace and grounds of Versailles when it was the seat of the French monarchy, methods of transportation, codes of dress and etiquette, precious diplomatic gifts, royal audiences, and tours of the buildings and gardens.

Subject

• Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 > Homes and haunts > Versailles > Exhibitions
• Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 > Art patronage > Exhibitions
• Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
• Louis XIV, 1638-1715
• Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) > History > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
• Château de Versailles
• 1600-1799
• Visitors, Foreign > Versailles > History > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Visitors, Foreign > Versailles > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Art patronage
• Courts and courtiers
• Homes
• Visitors, Foreign
• Versailles (France) > Court and courtiers > Exhibitions
• France > Versailles

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Visitors to Versailles," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 16 through July 29, 2018."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-362) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Incomparable Versailles / Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Bertrand Rondot -- Going to Versailles / Mathieu da Vinha -- Exchanging Looks: Codes of Dress at Versailles / Pascale Gorguet-Ballesteros -- Magnificent Display: European Ambassadorial Visitors / Helen Jacobsen -- Special Embassies and Overseas Visitors / Meredith Martin -- "Preśents du Roy": Official Gifts from the French Court / Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset -- Incognito in Versailles: Or, How Not to Travel as a King / Volker Barth -- Grand Tourists: Noble Visitors to the Court of the French King / Jean Boutier -- Visitors' Guidebooks and Engravings / Elisabeth Maisonnier -- The Americans / Paul Staiti -- Notes to the Essays -- Works in the Exhibition.

ISBN

• 9781588396228
• 1588396223

LCCN

2018003244

OCLC

• on1022075254
• 1022075254
• SCSB-9701831

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries