Livre d'Architecture Contenant les Principes Generaux de cet Art, et les Plans, Elevations et Profils de Quelques-uns des Batiments Faits en France & dans les Pays Etrangers...
published 1745
Artist, French, c. 1715 - 1762 or after
Artist, French, 1705 - 1774
Artist, French, 1711 - 1771
Artist, French, probably 1720 - 1775
Artist, French, died 1762
Artist, French, c. 1710 - after 1788
Artist, French, 1685 - 1769
Author, French, 1667 - 1754
Artwork overview
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Medium
1st of 2 works bound in 1 vol: ill: woodcut vignettes on title pages, etched head-piece on dedication by Pierre François Tardieu after François Boucher, various head- and tail-pieces, plus 68 engravings (33 double-page, 34 folding, 1 full-page, versosblank) by De la Marcade (13), Tardieu (12), Jacques-François Blondel (10), Pierre-Edme Babel (7), François Lucas (6), Antoine Herisset (4), Fonbonne (3), Mutel (3), Pierre Moreau (2), and Jean-Laurent Legeay (1), rest unsigned after Boffrand
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 43.5 x 29.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 44.2 x 30.8 x 5.8 cm (17 3/8 x 12 1/8 x 2 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.416.a
Associated Artworks
Description De Ce Qui A Été Pratiqué Pour Fondre en Bronze D'un Seul Jet La Figure Equestre de Louis XIV, Elevée Dans La Place de Louis Le Grand En Mil Six Cens Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf
Jacques-François Blondel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, Pierre François Tardieu, Gabriel Germain Boffrand
1743
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ownership inscription of J.G. Le Moine, 1750; ownership inscription of Dellezigne Chapelier, 1810; unknown ownership inscription, 1861; bookplate of Charles Frédéric Mewes; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1993
Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 30.
Inscriptions
all by later hands, on first french title page, center in pen and brown ink: J.G. Le Moine 1750; on front flyleaf, across top in graphite: 1810. / Ce present livre appartien a / Dellezigne Chapelier / rue du Cabourg / No 41 A orleans; on front flyleaf, upper left verso in pen and black ink: acheta le 29 novembre 1861