Jardin de Monceau

The early French landscape garden at Monceau near Paris was created for the Duc de Chartres and in 1779 it was publicized in a book of illustrations. The elaborately coloured etchings show scenes from this Anglo-Chinese garden, the design of which was guided by a cosmopolitan concept based on the motto "tous les temps et tous les lieux" (all the times and all the places).

Louis Carrogis gen. Carmontelle (1717–1806), Jardin de Monceau, près de Paris, coloured etching, Paris, 1779, figure II, from: Reprint Paris o.J.; image source: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.