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Print

c. 1647-63 (published)
Artist/Maker
Brisville (Designer)
Mathurin Berton (Engraver)
Mariette (Publisher)
Pierre Mariette II (Publisher)
Place of origin
Paris (Published)

Hugues Brisville (after), 1 of 2 plates probably engraved by Mathurin Berton, designs for wrought iron gates and railings. Paris, c. 1647 - 1663.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
engraving
Brief description
Hugues Brisville (after), 1 of 2 plates probably engraved by Mathurin Berton, designs for wrought iron gates and railings. Paris, c. 1647 - 1663.
Object history
Micromedia catalogued these as plates 15 & 16 of the Diverses pieces de Serruriers suite. See entry in Berlin where two plates of a similar description by Berton were also later grouped with this suite as plates 15 & 16.
Bibliographic references
  • Describes the Diverses Pieces [...] as containing 16 plates Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 93, 30 (1).
  • Under 'Berton' describes 'Entrées de Serrures' Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 93, 86 (1/2/3)?
  • Describes plates by Berton and their later addition as plates 15 & 16 to Diverse Pieces. (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 1336 & 1338.
  • Diverses pieces described as 14 plates. Doesn't mention plates 15 & 16. No prints by Berton included in the catalogue. Fuhring, P., Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, 2270-2285.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.6090-1906

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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