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Petites Arabesques

Etching
1550 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Petites Arabesques (popular title)
  • Petits panneaux grotesques (assigned by artist)
  • Petites Grotesques (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau. Petites Arabesques. French, 1550.
Physical description
Etching
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.8cm
  • Width: 7cm
Styles
Object history
Plate from the complete suite of 50 plates incl. title plate. First edition.
Bibliographic references
  • Geymüller, H. von Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1887), p.316.
  • 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.
  • Poke, C. 'Jacques Androuet I Ducerceau's 'Petites Grotesques' as a source for Urbino Mailolica Decoration', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 143, No. 1179, June 2001:332-344.
  • 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. 312.
Collection
Accession number
23089:34

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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