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Livre De Diverses Grotesques Peintes Dans Le Cabinet Et Bains De La Reyne Regente, Au Palais Royal etc.

Etching
1647 (First published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLivre De Diverses Grotesques Peintes Dans Le Cabinet Et Bains De La Reyne Regente, Au Palais Royal etc. (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
etching
Brief description
Simon Vouet (after), 1 of 9 plates, title plate wanting, from the suite of 15 plates depicing the mural decoration in the partments of the Queen Regent, the 'Livre de Diverses Grotesques', French, first published 1647.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Average size to plate mark height: 24.7cm
  • Width: 12.5cm
Object history
Plates 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 15. For complete suite see 93 B 102.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 56, 74 (1).
  • Fuhring, P., Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, 1065-1079.
Collection
Accession number
13670:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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