Jean Bérain I (after), Album entitled ' Ornemens inventez par Jean Bérain' comprised of 137 plates engraved by various printmakers after designs by Bérain, reissued and assembled by the artist's son-in-law, Jacques Thuret. Paris, in or after 1711.

Design for ornament

An album with original eighteenth-century gilt-tooled leather binding in which entire sheets and leaves pasted with prints are bound together, engraved by various printmakers after a variety of Bérain's designs, reissued and assembled in a number of albums by his son-in-law, Jacques Thuret, following the artist's death in 1711. The contents and sequence differ slightly with each album. The V&A's does not include the engraved portrait frontispiece found in other examples. Among the suites included can be found designs for interiors; grotesque panels; vases; candelabra; arms and weapons; ironwork; capitals; parterres; trophies and emblems; and suites with lettered titles: 'Desseins de Cheminées'; 'Arcade de la Feuillée'; 'Recueil de Divers Mausolées executées pour la famille Royale de france'.

E.4128-1906