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1549

Jean Goujon

Associated Names
Jean Goujon

Artist, French, 1510 - 1565

This is a drawing of a printed page consisting of text and an illustration. The page features a decorative title detailing an event relating to Henry II, King of France, in the year 1549. Below the title and main text, there is a small woodcut illustration depicting a figure carrying a staff or spear, navigating through a landscape with trees in the background, and water possibly flowing at their feet. The text beneath this illustration mentions Paris and a bookseller named Jehan Dallier. The overall composition of the page reflects the style of 16th-century printed documents, characterized by its typography and engravings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 woodcut headpiece and 11 woodcut illustrations including 2 fold-outs on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 24.4 × 17.2 × 1.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.91.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, Catalog no. 296); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • McFarlane, I.D.The Entry of Henri II into Paris, 16 June 1549. Binghamton: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 1982.

1996

  • Zerner, Henri. L'art de la renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme. Paris, 1996: 283-285, figs. 322-323, 325.

Inscriptions

inside upper cover in graphite: cc/[?]106/[?] / marque de P. Roffet, / Renouard 1010

Watermarks

on paste-down and free endpaper: crown over a bell with monogram HR in the middle;
the letter P is evident in several sheets


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