West facade of the Cour Carrée of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Palace" class="extiw" title="en:Louvre Palace">Louvre</a> with transverse sections of the north wing (on the right) and the central pavilion of the south wing (on the left), the latter with a design not reflecting what was built. From Jacques-François Blondel's <i>Architecture françoise</i>, Tome 4, Livre 6, Plate 18. For Blondel's discussion of this plate (in French), see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1080359/f97.image.r=.langEN">p. 67 of tome 4</a> (at Gallica). The print is composed of five impressions from 4 engraved copper plates, one used twice. The central pavilion in the figure, the Grand Vestibule, is now known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavillon_de_l%27Horloge" class="extiw" title="en:Pavillon de l'Horloge">Pavillon de l'Horloge</a>. To its left is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lescot_Wing" class="extiw" title="en:Lescot Wing">Lescot wing</a>, and to its right, the Lemercier wing. The pavilion at the far left (shown in transverse section) corresponds in position to the Pavillon des Arts, and the pavilion at the far right (the top part shown in elevation), to the Pavillon de Beauvais.  There is a conspicuous error in the elevation as printed, with four rather than three bays between the left <i>avant-corps</i> and central <i>avant-corps</i> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lescot_Wing" class="extiw" title="en:Lescot Wing">Lescot Wing</a> (the wing to the left of the central Pavillon de l'Horloge). The same error is also seen in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1080359/f100.image.r=.langEN">copy at the Bibiothèque nationale de France</a>. This is an area where two separate prints were joined together (see note below).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Pierre_Lescot" class="extiw" title="w:en:Pierre Lescot"><span title="French architect (1515-1578)">Pierre Lescot</span></a>
</bdi>
1659 or later (Marot); 1756 (Blondel)
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit-e/f01/image/04/f01s1203.html">Kyoto University Library</a>