Recueil D'Ornemens a l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Batimens
published 1777
Artist, French, 1731 - 1788
Artist, French, 1736 - 1820
Artist, French, born 1739
Artist, Italian, French school, 1738/1739 - 1797
Author, French, 1731 - 1788
Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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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
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.