Château de Vaux le Vicomte

André Le Nôtre (French landscape architect, 1613-1700)

Charles Le Brun (French architect, 1619-1690)

Louis Le Vau (French architect, 1612-1670)

Perelle, Gabriel (French printmaker and painter, ca.1603-1677), Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet, the elder (ca. 1515-after 1584)

Vaux-le-Vicomte, Château de, Île-de-France, France

France

1656-1661 (creation)

17th century

bird's-eye perspective of entrance front

bird's-eye perspective of garden front, exterior perspectives

French château about 6 km north-east of Melun, in the département of Seine-et-Marne. It was built in 1656-1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Surintendant des Finances, by Louis Le Vau with the assistance of Charles Le Brun. The gardens were laid out by André Le Nôtre under Le Vau's guidance. The forerunner of Versailles, it is the most important château built in France in the mid-17th century

it was here that Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre learnt to work as a team and to produce the unity of architecture, interior decoration and garden layout that distinguishes the Louis XIV style.

line drawings (drawings)

Architectural Documentation

châteaux

houses

dwellings

residential structures

illustrations

Baroque

Seventeenth century

French

architectural exteriors

architectural interiors

landscapes

rulers and leaders

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715

interior

Blomfield Reginald Theodore, Sir. A History of French Architecture from the Death of Mazarin till the Death of Louis XV. 1. London: G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1921, III.

Public Domain

Le Nôtre, André

Le Brun, Charles

Le Vau, Louis