Expérience aérostatique faite à Versailles, 1783 – Antique Wall Art
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Expérience aérostatique faite à Versailles, 1783
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The title points to a hot-air balloon demonstration staged at Versailles in 1783, the year the Montgolfier brothers first flew crewed craft in France. Royal patronage was central to these early ascents: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette watched closely, and the king's ministers arranged trial flights to test whether balloons could carry living passengers. A sheep, a duck and a rooster had gone up earlier that year at Versailles, and this scene likely belongs to that same moment of public spectacle, when the crowd gathered to see whether the sky could be claimed for human travel. Notice the crowd and the court dress, which show how quickly aeronautics became a fashionable entertainment for the elite.
| Original scan | 2,909 × 2,205 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02472u Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique |
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