Veues des belles maisons de France
Veues des belles maisons de France is a 1680 print series of views of French country houses and gardens, engraved in Paris by Adam Perelle with plates published by Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle, held by Heidelberg University Library. The engravings show formal palace façades set in geometric parterres, fountains and long tree-lined avenues, with small figures of strollers and visitors. A designer can take from them the clear linear logic of baroque garden plans, with symmetrical axes, bosquets and tiny staffage figures that give scale.
