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Livre de grotesques

Etching
1566 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet (I) (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Paris (Printed and published)

Etching

Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Etching
Titles
  • Livre de grotesques (assigned by artist)
  • Grandes Arabesques (popular title)
  • Grandes Grotesques (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, fragment of a plate from the Grandes Grotesques.
Physical description
Etching
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 3cm
  • Width: 4.5cm
Styles
Late Renaissance
Mannerist
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D. Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 10.
  • Geymüller, H. von Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1887), p. 317, 333-336.
  • Linzeler, A. and Jean Adhémar. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle (Paris: M. Le Garrec; Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-1935, 1938): vol. 1, p. 67.
  • Warncke, C.-P, Die ornamentale Groteske in Deutschland 1500-1650, Berlin, 1979, p. 35,37,45,65.
  • Guillaume, J., P. Fuhring and V. Auclair [et al.] Jacques Androuet du Cerceau : 'un des plus grands architectes qui soient jamais trouvés en France' Paris. c. 2010, p. 317.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
25083:7

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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