Le Premier Volume des plus Excellents Bastiments de France...; Le Second Volume des plus Excellents Bastiments de France...

published 1576/1607

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau

Author, French, 1520 - 1585/1586

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 works in 1 vol: 1st part: ill: 77 etchings (72 double-page, 5 full-page, versos blank); 2nd part: ill: 72 etchings (66 double-page, 6 full-page, versos blank)

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 42.9 x 30 cm (16 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 43.6 x 32.1 x 5.3 cm (17 3/16 x 12 5/8 x 2 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.333

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Edouard Mewes; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 8.

1994

  • Leone, Ann. "La Princesse de Clèves and the Politics of Versailles Garden Design." Mosaic 27 (June 1994): 28, fig 1 (plate of Fontainebleau reproduced).

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