Nouveau Livre de Principes d'Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de formes qui en dependent, d'Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2423
Imprint
A Paris: chés Huquier rue des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne., [between 1749 and 1761?]
Physical Description
12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 255×360 mm.
Responsibility Note
All plates except the title-plate are signed as engraved and printed by Huquier. Plates 3-12 are also signed as designed by Gillot.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, I (Washington, 1993), 77; Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Bibliothèque Nationale. Cab. Est. Cat., xi) (1970), p.446-545; B. Populus, Claude Gillot (1930), p. 366-77; D. Guilmard, Les maitres ornemanistes, 2 v. (1880-1), p. 144, no.3.
Summary Note
The second leaf includes the engraved text, 'Au Lecteur'.
Gillot's inventive designs exemplified the rococo style, and made him one of the most admired decorators of his generation.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
19th-century grey cloth-covered boards. 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with Huquier's Iconologies and nine others.
Subject
Ornaments - Europe - France - History - 18th century
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century - Rococo
Pictorial works - France - 18th century