Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque

by Claude-Henri Watelet

Book Overview

Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. He advances the theory that the useful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237226
• ISBN13: 9780812237221
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.7"