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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
1687-1761 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Jean Du Viviers (engraver)
Place of origin
France (engraved)

A design for a cartouche in the Louis XIV style.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Designs
Object type
Print
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
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
Print probably by Jean du Viviers, plate from a set of 6 designs for cartouches in the Louis XIV style, engraving, 1687-1761
Physical description
A design for a cartouche in the Louis XIV style.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.74in
  • Width: 8.125cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Style
Louis XIV
Subject depicted
Cartouche
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
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
  • Guilmard, Désiré, Les maîtres ornemanistes: dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs: écoles française,-italienne,-allemande,-et des Pays-Bas (flamande & hollandaise): ouvrage renfermant le répertoire général des maîtres ornemanistes avec l'indication précise des pièces d'ornement qui se trouvent dans les cabinets publics et particuliers de France, de Belgique, etc. / par D. Guilmard; publication enrichie de 180 planches tirées à part et de nombreuses gravures dans le texte donnant environ 250 spécimens des principaux maîtres et précédée d'une introduction par M. le baron Davillier, Mansfield Center, Connecticut: Martino Publishing, 2009.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.311-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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