Livre De Fragments D'Architectures Recüeilis et dessinés à Rome d'apres les plus beaux Monuments. Par G.M. Oppenort Direct. Geñal des Batims. de son A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, regent
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2684
Variant Title
Suitte Des Etudes
Seconde Suitte Des Etudes
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier rue St. Jacque au coin de celle des Mathurins. A.P.D.R., [between 1738 and 1749?]
Physical Description
8 parts.; 437 mm. (Folio).
General Note
Each of the eight suites consists of [6] pl. (incl. t.-pl.) (all fold.) on 3 sheets. In each suite all plates except the first carry the appropriate number, 'I' to 'VIII'. Each bears two images.
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed. In the first volume one plate includes the lettering 'Ioannes Baptista Soria Romanus Architectus', presumably indicating Soria as source artist.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, I (1993), no. 125, p.370-1.
M. Myers, French architecture and ornament of the eighteenth century (1991).
Summary Note
The second volume is entitled, 'Seconde Suitte Des Etudes de G.M. Oppenort Architecte &c.' Volumes 3-8 are entitled, 'IIIe. (-VIIIe.) Suitte Des Etudes de G.M. Oppenort Architecte &c.'. Suites 3-7 have the Latin abbreviation 'C.P.R.' instead of the French 'A.P.D.R.' in the imprint; Suite 8 has no privilege in the imprint.
All the plates are views of architectural details; there are no plans.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier, Oppenort ...').
Copy Note
All plates are pasted in.
Binding Note
18th-century calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black moroccon spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.
Architecture - Architecture details - Italy - Rome - History - Baroque - Rococo
Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century