Antique Hand-Colored Paris Engraving: "Vue de la Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg” blown glass and elegant birds

and elegant birds

Its timeworn surface and layered paint speak to a life well lived

and the raw energy of 18th-century French street life

Measures 9

Perfect for the bookshelf or on the desk

Antique Hand-Colored Paris Engraving: "Vue de la Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg” blown glass and elegant birdsThis late 18th century hand colored engraving captures a rare historical view of the Medici Fountain in Paris, then known as the "Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg."Produced between 1787 and 1789 as part of the celebrated series Vues pittoresques des principaux difices de Paris, the artwork is attributed to the prominent French engraver Antoine Louis Franois Sergent Marceau. The circular "tondo" composition and delicate hand tinting depict the fountain