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Ouvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices et gentillesses representees en l'industrieuse decoupure d'un chappeau

Print
1636 (first published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An engraving depicting portraits of a man and a woman wearing fantastical costumes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOuvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices et gentillesses representees en l'industrieuse decoupure d'un chappeau (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Brief description
Print after Denis Boutemie, 1 of 9 plates, including title plate and frontispiece from a suite of 20 plates entitled, 'Ouvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices [...]', engraving, France ca. 1636
Physical description
An engraving depicting portraits of a man and a woman wearing fantastical costumes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12cm
  • Cut to width: 20.6cm
Object history
This plate is a reverse copy. See the complete suite in bound volume 95.D.102 (E.189 to 208-1927).
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 52, 61 (2).
  • Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 310.
  • Fuhring, P., 'Denis Boutemie: A Seventeenth-Century Virtuoso' in Print Quarterly IX 1992, pp.46-55.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Accession number
12982

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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