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Bernard Picart with plates after Albrecht Dürer, after Charles Le Brun and after Rembrandt van Rijn

Recueïl de Lions: Dessinés d'après nature par divers maitres et gravés par B. Picart (Collection of Lions: Drawn from nature by Various Masters and Engraved by B. Picart), 1729

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Medium

bound volume with 1 etched title, 1 engraved vignette on printed title, and 42 etched illustrations on 36 leaves of laid paper (30 full-page plates and 12 printed 2 etchings per page on 6 leaves)

Dimensions

book: 20 × 26.3 × 1.4 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.8.1

Artists / Makers

Bernard Picart (artist) French, 1673 - 1733

Albrecht Dürer (artist after) German, 1471 - 1528

Charles Le Brun (artist after) French, 1619 - 1690

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist after) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

fly leaf (erased inscription upper left): (not dechiperable); first free endpaper, upper right in graphite: lv 848; last free endpaper in brown ink at top: v. [?]6-; bottom left: C.G.D.; upper right: xx / 1c6769

Provenance

François-César Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux (bookplate), Paris; (his sale, Paris, Nyon, 1782, lot 595). Henri Gallice (bookplate), Epernay. (Ursus Books, Ltd., New York); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gallice, Henri
Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux, François-César
Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.