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Nouveau Livre de Montans

Etching
1660-90 (Etched)
Artist/Maker
Androuet Du Cerceau, Paul (Printmaker)
François De Poilly (Publisher)
Place of origin
Paris (Printed and published)

Etching.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleNouveau Livre de Montans (Series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Paul Androuet Du Cerceau. 1 of 6 plates, including title page, from a set designs of foliated grotesques, figures and beasts for metalwork standards. Etching, Paris.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Average size of plates in set height: 28.15cm
  • Width: 15.8cm
Style
French School
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 87, no. 26.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, no. 326.1.
  • (IFF) Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 –, vol. 1, 23.
  • Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, 643-646.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937, London: Board of Education, 1938.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1157-1937

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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