Recueïl de Lions: Dessinés d'après nature par divers maitres et gravés par B. Picart (Collection of Lions: Drawn from nature by Various Masters and Engraved by B. Picart)
1729
Artist, French, 1673 - 1733
Artist After, German, 1471 - 1528
Artist After, French, 1619 - 1690
Artist After, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Bernard Picart with plates after Albrecht Dürer, after Charles Le Brun and after Rembrandt van Rijn
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 1 etched title, 1 engraved vignette on printed title, and 42 etched illustrations on 36 leaves of laid paper (30 full-page plates and 12 printed 2 etchings per page on 6 leaves)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 20 × 26.3 × 1.4 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2019.8.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
François-César Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux (bookplate), Paris; (his sale, Paris, Nyon, 1782, lot 595). Henri Gallice (bookplate), Epernay. (Ursus Books, Ltd., New York); purchased 2018 by NGA.
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Inscriptions
fly leaf (erased inscription upper left): (not dechiperable); first free endpaper, upper right in graphite: lv 848; last free endpaper in brown ink at top: v. [?]6-; bottom left: C.G.D.; upper right: xx / 1c6769