Bridge over a Cascade  1750

This overdoor is one of a pair; its pendant, of almost exactly the same dimensions, is Aqueduct in Ruins (07.225.264b). The two were perhaps acquired by David Étienne Rouillé de l'Étang for the great house that he remodeled at 6, place Louis XV, later place de la Concorde, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. [br] This overdoor is one of a pair; its pendant, of ...