De Architectura, Iacob Androvetti du Cerceau, Opus. Quo descriptae sunct aedificiorum quinquaginta plane dissimilium ichnographiae...; Second Livre D'Architecture, Par Iacques Androuet du Cerceau...

published 1559/1561

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau

Author, French, 1520 - 1585/1586

Jacques Androuet Ducerceau I (author)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 works in 1 vol: 1st part: ill: 71 etchings (all full-page, versos blank); 2nd part: ill: 66 etchings (all full-page, versos blank)

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 37.4 x 25.3 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 38.6 x 27 x 3.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.61.331

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ownership inscription of M delepomil (?); ownership inscription of M. lepot. de Mabeaugeron (?); Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

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Exhibition History

2019

  • The Renaissance of Etching, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020 (shown in New York only), no repro.

Bibliography

1993

  • Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 5.

2019

  • Jenkins, Catherine, Orenstein, Nadine, and Spira, Freyda. The Renaissance of Etching. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020.

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