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A set of 94 hand coloured vues d'optique

$15,000.00

A set of 94 hand coloured vues d'optique :  André Basset, Laurent Pierre Lachaussée, Jacques Chéreau, Hocquart, Jean-Francois Daumont, 

Vue prise a St. Petersbourg Dubois
Vue des Montagnes de Belleville pres Paris
VUE DES BAINS CHINOIS PRISE DU BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES.
FETE DU 14 JUILLET AN IX Vue du Temple élevé dans le Grand Carré des champs Eilysées dans lequel le Concert Fut Exécuté.


Vue d'optique (French), vue perspective or perspective view refers to a genre of etching popular during the second half of the 18th century and into the 19th. 

Vues d'optique were specifically developed to provide the illusion of depth when viewed through a zograscope, also known as an "optical diagonal machine" or viewers with similar functions. 

Optical viewers were generally popular with well-to-do European families in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Perspective views were produced in London, Paris, Augsburg and several other cities