Choix des plus Celebres Maisons de Plaisance de Rome (Selection of the Most Famous Villas of Rome)
1809
Printmaker
Various Artists after Charles Percier (author and artist) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (author and artist)
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 77 etched and engraved illustrations
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 56 x 41.2 cm (22 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
page size: 55 x 39.3 cm (21 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
2003.79.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 1939, no. 3500
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(The Bookpress Ltd, Williamsburg, VA); purchased 2003 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1904
Fouché, Maurice. Percier et Fontaine: Biographie Critique. Paris, 1904.
1939
Berlin, Staatliche Museen. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1939: no. 3500.
1971
Duportal, Jeanne.Percier et Fontaine: Reproductions de dessins conservé á la Bibliotheque de l'Institut.... Preface by Maurice Fenaille, Westmead: 1971, reprint of Paris, 1931 edition).
1993
Weibenson, Dora, and Claire Baines.The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection. Washington and New York, 1993: no. 389.
Inscriptions
On verso of first loose endpaper, lower left in graphite: "First Edn. / 77 plates, numbered 1 to 75, plus plate 39 bis (between 42 and 43) (after p. 32) / and unnumbered plate between plates 57 & 58 (after p. 48) / see Berlin 3500 (2nd edition) / 8132"; upper left in graphite: "ONXX 702 / 1st ed / $4800 / #32962" and "K8075A"