Recueil D'Ornemens a l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Batimens

published 1777

Gilles Paul Cauvet

Artist, French, 1731 - 1788

Simon Charles Miger

Artist, French, 1736 - 1820

Jacques Le Roy

Artist, French, born 1739

Pietro Antonio Martini

Artist, Italian, French school, 1738/1739 - 1797

Gilles Paul Cauvet

Author, French, 1731 - 1788

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: etched and engraved title-page vignette and etched and engraved portrait by Jacques Le Roy after Louis Gustave Taraval, engraved dedication by Pietro Antonio Martini after Sim. Julien Tol., plus 93 etching and engravings (33 full-page, 52are printed 2 to a page, 3 are on 1 page, 5 are on 1 page; 4 are printed in brown; 41 are crayon manner of which 26 are printed in red and 8 in brown), artists include: Cauvet, Le Roy, Hemery, Viel, Martini, Mlle Lottier, Mlle Lothier l'ainee, SimonCharles Miger, Petit

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 54.1 x 39.6 cm (21 5/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 55.2 x 41.7 x 3.3 cm (21 3/4 x 16 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.467

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bookplate of Charles Foulard, Libraire; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 49.


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