A stage design: a young king seated on a throne set on clouds with a staircase and fictive architecture

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Attributed to Daniël Marot I (Paris 1661/64-1752 The Hague)
A stage design: a young king seated on a throne set on clouds with a staircase and fictive architecture
inscribed 'Le Palais de l'Amour'
pen and black ink, grey wash, watermark Strasburg lily with IH
30.9 x 26.8 cm.; and another drawing:
a. Dutch School, 18th Century, Design for a stage set (pl. 1)
(2)2

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Lucien Rouzé-Huet (died 1889) (L. 1742).

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Possibly a stage design for Jean-Baptiste Lully's ballet, Le Triomphe de l'Amour, performed for the first time before King Louis XIV on 21 January 1681. Marot designed the frontispiece for the libretto by Philippe Quinault published in 1681.

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