Baudouins, F. (Overall view of Versailles). "Veue du Chateau de Versailles comme il estoit cy deuant." Original copper engraving, engraved after Adam Frans van der Meulen. 50.5 x77 cm (plate edge). With wine-red passepartout under glass in profile strip. Approximately 1685. See Thieme-Becker XXIV, 450 f. – Large-format overall view of Versailles Castle in its older state of construction before the extensive expansions under Louis XIV. The view leads over a landscape animated by riders and two carriages to the extensive castle complex. The Flemish painter Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632-1690) accompanied Louis XIV on his travels and campaigns and created numerous depictions of battles and landscapes. With Mittelfalz. Nice, strong pressure. Not embossed; Shipping only without frame.