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Petits trophées

Etching
c. 1545-50 (First published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePetits trophées (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, 'Petits Trophées', France, 1545-50.
Physical description
Etching
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 6cm
  • Width: 10cm
Styles
Object history
6 plates, from a series of 21 (Geymüller; IFF) or 22 (Guilmard; Fuhring) or 23 (BM) plates by Du Cerceau.

An anonymous pencil inscription on the envelope in which these prints are housed states they are reversed copies, and goes on to say that the Met has the same series but does not consider them to be copies and attributes them to Androuet Du Cerceau himself (32.130.33-57?). As the V&A's plates are not actually printed in the reverse sense to other known 'Petits Trophées' by Androuet Du Cerceau, this information is confusing.

Two of the plates (22732:1 and 22732:2) have been reinforced (?) by being pasted to fragments of a hand-written music manuscript/sheet music with French lyrics, in pen and ink.
Bibliographic references
  • Marolles, Catalogue de livres destampes et de figures en taille-douce. avec un denombrement des pièces qui y sont contenues, Paris, 1666.
  • Geymüller, H. von. Les Du Cerceau. Leur vie et leur œuvre d'après les nouvelles recherches, (Paris, 1887), p. 318 & fig. 126.
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 11. 4 (13).
  • Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 -, vol. 1, p. 64.
  • Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 291
  • 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. 307.
Collection
Accession number
22732:3

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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