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

published 1607

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau

Author, French, 1520 - 1585/1586

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 works in 1 vol: 1st part: ill: 77 etchings (71 double-page, 5 full-page, 1 folding, 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: 39.4 x 29.3 cm (15 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 40.8 x 32.5 x 5.6 cm (16 1/16 x 12 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.334

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 9.

1994

  • Leone, Ann. "La Princesse de Clèves and the Politics of Versailles Garden Design." Mosaic 27, no. 2 (1994): fig. 1.

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