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Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens

Ornament Print
1777 (first published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

One of 98 designs for ornamental motifs for use in interiors


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRecueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
Etchings, crayon manner etchings and engravings
Brief description
Gilles-Paul Cauvet (after), 1 of 98 plates from a collection of ornamental motifs designed by Cauvet for use in interiors, including title page, dedication and frontispiece; etched and engraved by various printmakers including Cauvet himself. French, 1777.
Physical description
One of 98 designs for ornamental motifs for use in interiors
Dimensions
  • Height: 56.5cm
  • Width: 39.6cm
Object history
Cauvet employed numerous printmakers to execute the etchings for this collection also producing a number himself, though only three are signed (Baltimore, cat. 71).

This volume of designs was transferred from the National Art Library to the Museum collections in 1915.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 226.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 483.
  • See 18th-century volumes under Cauvet and individual printmakers' entries. (IFF) Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 –
Collection
Accession number
E.3354-1915

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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