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Balustrades ou petits nielles

Print
Mid 16th century (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet (I) (Printmaker)
Place of origin
France (Printed)

An ornamental print depicting a design for a balustrade.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Designs
Object type
Print
TitleBalustrades ou petits nielles (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, 1 of 10 designs for balustrades, French, mid-16th century.
Physical description
An ornamental print depicting a design for a balustrade.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 4.2cm
  • Cut to width: 6.8cm
Styles
Late Renaissance
Mannerist
Object history
1 of 10 plates from an original series of 38 or 41. Geymuller suggests these were designs for external balustrades e.g. lucarnes and windows, however as Yves Pauwels (Tours, Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance) has pointed out, their application would have been considerably wider than this.
Bibliographic references
  • Geymüller, H. von Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1887), p. 313.
  • Linzeler, A. and Jean Adhémar. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle (Paris: M. Le Garrec; Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-1935, 1938): vol. 1, p. 64.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings accession registers for 1997
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.340-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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