Le Jupiter Olympien, Ou L'Art De La Sculpture Antique Considéré Sous Un Nouveau Point De Vue; Ouvrage Qui Comprend Un Essai Sur Le Goût De La Sculpture Polychorme, L'Analyse Explicative De La Toreutique, Et L'Histoire De La Statuaire En Or Et Ivoire Chez Les Grecs Et Les Romains, Avec la Restitution des principaux Monuments de cet Art Et La Démonstration pratique ou le Renouvellement de ses Procédés mécaniques; Par M. Quatremère-De-Quincy, Membre De L'Institut.
Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/497
Author
Imprint
A Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, Imprimeur De L'Institut, Libraire Pour Les Mathématiques, L'Architecture, La Marine, etc, Rue Jacob, No 24, 1814
Physical Description
[12], [i]-xxv, [1], 458 p., engr. frontis., 31 engr. pl.: illus. (etch.); 510 mm.
General Note
The work discusses the aesthetics and the construction of statuary in ancient Greece. There are 31 unsigned plates and the engraved frontispiece. Nineteen of the plates in this copy are, like the frontispiece, hand-coloured. The plates are mostly outline etchings of statues, many of which were drawn by the author after descriptions by Pausanias.
Contents
[Half-title, engr. frontis., t.p.] - Table Indicative Des Paragraphes Contenus Dans Les Six Parties De Cet Ouvrage. - Table Des Planches. - Avant-Propos. - [Text in six parts] - Table Générale Des Matières. with Errata. This copy lacks the dedication to the King.
References
Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books, 3 (1999), no. 2683
Recorded in Royal Academy of Arts, A catalogue of the library in the Royal Academy, London (1841), hand-written addendum opposite p. 10
Recorded in Royal Academy of Arts, A catalogue of the library in the Royal Academy, London (1841), hand-written addendum opposite p. 10
Binding Note
In original publisher's boards with leather label on spine lettered in gilt 'Le Jupiter Olympien Par Quatremère'. Housed in red Solander box with leather label on spine lettered in gilt 'Le Jupiter Olympien Par Quatremère'.
Subject
Sculpture, Greek - Polychromy - Sculpture, Chryselephantine
