Receuille des plus belles veües des maisons royales de France
A 1680 Paris collection of engraved views of French royal palaces and gardens, made by the printmaker Gabriel Perelle and sold through the de Poilly publishing house for an audience of collectors and patrons of architecture. The four pictures show long formal garden parterres, symmetrical palace façades, and crowds of strolling courtiers in fine-line etching, offering a designer a clear model for axial layouts, clipped hedge patterns, and grand perspective views.
