Tableaux du Temple des Muses
1655
Designer, Flemish, 1596 - 1675
Author, French
Abraham van Diepenbeeck (designer), Jacob Matham, Cornelis Bloemaert, Pierre Brebiette, Michel de Morolles (author)
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with engraved title, portrait of the author, and 58 etched and engraved illustrations
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Credit Line
Acquisition funded by a grant from The B.H. Breslauer Foundation, 2013
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Dimensions
book: 40.8 × 28.3 × 5 cm (16 1/16 × 11 1/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2013.67.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Graesse 1950, 408
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Capt. Michiels (inkstamp on title). Dr. Robert Thibaut (bookplate); Leonard B. Schlosser (bookplate); aqcuired in 1986 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (sale, Christie's New York, 20 June 2013, no. 606); purchased 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1950
Graesse, Jean George Théodore. Trésor de livres rares et présieux. Leipzig, 1950: IV, 408.
Inscriptions
by later hands, inside first end-paper, upper right in black ink: 86-69-14; center in graphite: large paper copy! / engraved title page unfolded - / (always folded in regular size copies) / p67 Brebiette / purchased from Leonard Schlosser, April 1986 / 67 / 83 / 195 / 106; upper left second free end-paper: 60 [fait?] de Bloemart / d'après Diepenbeek / este originale; stamped in ink under title page: Captn: Michiels.; lower right on 2nd to last free end-paper in graphite: [?]d. orginale. Brunet. i Suppl [?]ag-954. 58 fgg.lP. lFr.; lot sale pasted in on last free end-paper and written on (not deciphered).