PÉRELLE, Gabriel
(b. 1604, Vernon-sur-Seine, d. 1677, Paris)

Porte Saint-Denis

1675
Pen and India ink
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Porte Saint-Denis was designed and built by François Blondel in 1672-73. It marked the entrance to a particularly busy avenue, and was decorated with reliefs showing the crossing of the Rhine.