is indissolubly associated with the eighteenth-century
Classical garden thanks to his treatise La Théorie et
Pratique du Ja rdinage , published in Paris in 1709.
Dezallier presented assorted issues concerning garden
design in mathematical and geometrical rules,
lavishly illustrated with drawings (the majority by
Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Le Blond) which rendered
the principles expounded by him easily translatable
into foreign languages and transferable to conditions
other than French. The wide impact and international
popularity of La Théorie et Pratique du Jardinage
were linked with the adaptation of the proposed
spatial solutions to the financial potential of the less
prosperous social strata, and not limited to elites
associated with the monarch and their closest
entourage, as was the case with works by Dezallier’s
predecessors.
The treatise is composed of two parts: the theory
of the art of gardening and practice. The first considers
the principles of selecting the localisation of the
residential building and the garden, the general layout
of the garden, the creation of beds and parterres,
the planting and cultivation of avenues, rows, and
bosquets, the creation of indentations, the erection of
garden pavilions, and the suitable display of figurative
sculpture and other elements of architectural garden
decorations. The second part deals with the application
of the principles of geometry while planning
gardens, conducting earth work, the construction of
terraces and stairs, the transference of projects into the
terrain, the selection of plants, and nursery beds. The
last two chapters discuss spatial elements connected
with water: fountains, cascades, pools and canals.
La Théorie et Pratique du Jardinage was widely
known in eighteenth-century Poland, and the
principles presented therein were reflected in the
gardens established at the time. The vista offered
from the main avenue of the Branicki Garden in
Białystok looking onto the Stag and Fallow Deer
Park appears to be taken straight out of Dezallier. The
same holds true for garden pavilions along the axis in
the Białystok garden while the localisation of the
pavilion closing the main garden axis in Choroszcz,
offering a distant view of the Narew valley, coincides
with Dezallier’s recommendations. Green
walks as well as grass-covered stairs and ascents
were universally used in Wilanów Garden at the time
of Maria Zofia and August Czartoryski. The considerable
differentiation of the shape of the bouquets
in this particular garden seems to refer to the principle
frequently mentioned in the treatise, which called
for the introduction of various spatial forms into garden
compositions. In turn, the garden of the Blue
Palace in Warsaw, with a semi-circular enclosure of
the garden salon and strong architectural emphasis
on the main axis as well as thicketsat the two
extremes, planted in order to restore symmetry to the
composition, recall the examples of small urban gardens
in La Théorie et Pratique du Jardinage.
The contents of the Dezallier work assumes particular
significance while conducting the revalorisation
makes it possible to supplement information
which cannot be supplied by the often extremely
modest archival sources. It also enables a fuller comprehension
of the principles of the functioning of an
eighteenth-century garden and its cultivation. Many
of the mechanisms and behaviour associated with
establishing gardens, described by Dezallier, especially
those concerning the mutual relations between
the investor and the designer, remain surprisingly
topical.
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