MARC Record view

001 $ 06/6059
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220726172413.5
041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
245 0 0 $a Recueil de plusieurs Figures d'Academie Dessinées d'après Le Naturel Par F. Verdier Peintre ordinaire du Roy Et gravées Par J. Bap de Poilly
260 # # $a ce vend a Paris $b rue St. jacques a la belle Image C.P.R. $c [1747?]
300 # # $a [18] pl. (incl. t.pl.); $c 387 mm.
508 # # $a The first plate (title plate) is unsigned. All others are signed as designed by F. Verdier and engraved by J. Bap. de Poilly C.P.R. - apart from pl. [8], which is signed as designed by Nicolas Poilly and engraved by 'son frère'.
510 0 # $a On 'Academy' figures see M. Roland-Michel, Le dessin français au XVIII siècle (1987), p.47-76; J.H. Rubin, Eighteenth-century French life drawing (1977).
520 2 # $a All plates show male nudes, possibly representing pagan deities.

François Verdier worked chiefly under Charles Le Brun, painting and designing both Christian and classical subjects.
563 # # $a 18th-century half mottled calf, brown watered-cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Academy Figures By Verdier', spine lettered 'R.A.'; spine repaired in 20th century. Bound with one other.
600 1 4 $a Verdier
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek - Iconography
653 # # $a Nudes - Men (male humans)
653 # # $a Drawings - France - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pattern books - France - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - France - 18th century
700 1 # $a Verdier $e source artist $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Poilly $e engraver