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
Bernard Picart with plates after Albrecht Dürer, after Charles Le Brun and after Rembrandt van Rijn
Artist, French, 1673 - 1733
Artist After, German, 1471 - 1528
Artist After, French, 1619 - 1690
Artist After, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
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.
Associated Names
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