# Fireworks

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LE PAUTRE, Jean](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Engraving

## Commentary

This engraving depicts the firework over the Grand Canal in Versailles on 18 August 1674. &lt;p&gt; &lt;table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor=&#34;\#99cccc&#34;&gt; &lt;tr valign=middle&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; border=0 valign=middle&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 18 minutes\):&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/18\_cent/handel\_fireworks.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Handel: Fireworks Music&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

## Related artworks

- [Grotto of Thetis in Versailles](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/grotto-of-thetis-in-versailles-re33d1bb5b6bee5>)
- [Performance of Alceste in 1674](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/performance-of-alceste-in-1674-r0ef5d22e02f7ab>)
- [The Ceremonial Entry of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse into Paris in 1660](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/the-ceremonial-entry-of-louis-xiv-and-marie-thrse-into-paris-in-1660-r6407ada9266634>)
- [The Ceremonial Entry of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse into Paris in 1660](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/the-ceremonial-entry-of-louis-xiv-and-marie-thrse-into-paris-in-1660-rf52946511ec88a>)
- [The Festivities of Cupid and Bacchus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/the-festivities-of-cupid-and-bacchus-ra1ae688ec7a9b7>)
- [Vase in a Cartouche](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/le-pautre-jean-r53b30ea91d2658/vase-in-a-cartouche-r41f5b55a2cec6f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)