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03-06-2026
Louis Meunier

París, 1630

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Plaza Mayor of Madrid

1665 - 1668. Etching on laid paper.
Not on display

This print belongs to an album, bound in parchment from the 17th or early 18th century, consisting of 103 prints with views of churches, palaces, monuments, and places in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, belonging to different series published during the 17th century. This one belongs to the series Differents veues des Palais et Jardins de plaisance des Rois despagne, with several views of Spain and Portugal etched by Louis Meunier (c. 1630-c. 1680) and published in Paris between 1665 and 1668 by Nicolas Bonnart I (1637-1718). It appears that all these images were drawn from life, as stated in some of the prints (designé au naturel), during Meunier´s stay in the Iberian Peninsula in the 1660s, and subsequently etched.

Technical data

Inventory number
G007033/048
Author
Louis Meunier -Engraver and drawer-
Title
Plaza Mayor of Madrid
Date
1665 - 1668
Technique
Etching
Support
Laid paper
Dimension
Height: 204 mm; Width: 305 mm; Height of the plate mark: 132 mm; Width of the plate mark: 247 mm
Series
Louis Meunier, Differentes veues: differentes veues des palais et Jardins de plaisance des Rois despagne deie a La Reine = diuersas vistas de Las casas y Jardines de placer del Rei despana dedicado a la Reina, [París]: Chez N. Bonnart, 1665-1668, 5
Provenance
Purchased at Galería FRAME S.L. (Madrid), 2024
Entry date
2024

Bibliography +

Boix, Félix [comisión organizadora], Exposición del antiguo Madrid: catálogo-guía, Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte, Madrid, 1926, pp. 278 n.70 d.

Robert-Dumesnil, A-P.F., Le Peintre-Graveur Français. . . Vol. V-VI. Facs. 1841., F.De Nobele, París, 1967, pp. 250-251 n.5 V.

Páez Ríos, Elena, Repertorio de Grabados Españoles, II, H-Q, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1982, pp. 216, 1391 d).

Museo Municipal de Madrid., Catálogo del Gabinete de Estampas del Museo Municipal de Mad..., Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Concejalía de Cultura, Madrid, 1989, pp. 189, 153 n.4.

Sanz Guillén, Alejandro M., 'Israël Silvestre, Louis Meunier y Pieter Nolpe.Álbum con Vistas de iglesias y palacios de Francia y Diferentes vistas de las casas y jardines de placer del Rey de España. Louis Meunier. Siete estampas sueltas de su serie de los Jardines de Aranjuez', Museo Nacional del Prado. Memoria de actividades 2024, Madrid, 2025, pp. 59-62.

Filigree +

Motive: Escudo con corona, serpiente y flores


113 x 115 mm
Principal
9
22 mm.
Posición central en la hoja
Escudo coronado con serpiente y flores

Bibliography
Heawood, Edward, Watermarks, mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, Paper Publications Society, Hilversum (Holland), 1950, pp. 688, 690, 694, 695.
Gaudriault, Raymond, Filigranes et autres caractéristiques des papiers fabriqués en France au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, CNRS éd., J. Telford, París, 1995, pp. 74.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 3139.

Inscriptions +

designé sur les lieux et graué par L.Meunier avec priuil. du Roy
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower left area

placa majop de Madrid// La grande Place du Marché de Madrid -- Plaza major de Madrid// designé sur les lieux et graué par L.Meunier avec priuil. du Roy
Lettered in the plate. Front

Update date: 03-06-2026 | Registry created on 23-12-2025

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