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Artist:
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attributed to Pierre Antoine de Machy
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Title:
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Place de la Concorde
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Date:
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c. 1783
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Medium:
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Oil on panel
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Dimensions:
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15 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (40.01 x 62.23 cm) (panel)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Russell A. Plimpton in memory of Lt. (jg) William Gardner White, U.S.N.R.
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Location:
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Gallery 314
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On December 1, 1783, a crowd estimated at 400,000 people gathered to watch Jacques Charles and Aine Robert ascend in their hydrogen balloon. This painting records their historic flight from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to the village of Nesle twenty-seven miles away - the longest hot-air balloon flight attempted up to that time.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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de Machy, Pierre Antoine
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1723 - 1807
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Place de la Concorde, seen from the left bank of the Seine. To commemorate one of the first balloon ascensions in Paris. Shows the beginning of the first manned hydrogen balloon flight from the Tuileries Garden, Paris to Nesle, a distance of twenty seven miles.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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45.22
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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