Musée Impérial Du Louvre - Collection Sauvageot Dessinée Et Gravée A L'Eau-Forte Par Édouard Lièvre Accompagnée D'Un Texte Historique Et Descriptif Par A. Sauzay Conservateur-Adjoint Des Musées Impériaux -
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/819
Variant Title
Collection Sauvageot
Imprint
Paris: Noblet Et Baudry, Libraires-Éditeurs 20, Rue Jacob -, M DCCC LXIII Tous Droits De Reproduction Et De Traduction Réservés
Physical Description
2 vols.; 445 mm.
General Note
Vol. I: [132] p., pl. 1-60. - Vol. II: [116] p., pl. 61-120.
Contents
Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - A La Mémoire De Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot ... - Liste Des Souscripteurs - [Text and plates]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text and plates] - Collection Sauvageot Table Générale Des Objets Représentés; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
Most plates are signed by Ed. Lièvre.
Most carry the imprint of the printer - Drouart, Brebant or A. Salmon.
The text printer is named on the title-page versos, at the end of the Liste Des Souscripteurs and in the colophon: 'J. Claye imprimeur r. St. Benoit. 7. à Paris'.
The work is dedicated by Édouard Lièvre to the Comte De Nieuwerkerke.
Summary Note
The work describes the collection of Gothic and Renaissance metalwork and other objects which Charles Sauvageot donated to the Louvre in 1856.
A painting was made by Arthur Henri Roberts showing the collection as it existed in Sauvageot's apartment.
Provenance
Purchased for RA Library in 1870 (see 'Librarian's Report for the Year 1870', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 29).
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spines lettered 'Musée Du Louvre. - Collection Sauvageot. Tome I (II)' and 'Paris. 1863.'
Metalwork - Works of art - Europe - France - History - Gothic - Renaissance
Collections - Museums - France - Paris - 19th century
Catalogues - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - France - 19th century