Recueil D'Estampes D'Après Les Plus Beaux Tableaux Et D'Après Les Plus Beaux Desseins Qui Sont En France Dans le Cabinet du Roi, dans celui de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, & dans d'autres Cabinets. Divisé Suivant Les Différentes Ecoles; Avec un abrégé de la Vie des Peintres, & une Description historique de chaque Tableau. Tome Premier. Contenant l'Ecole Romaine.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2199
Imprint
A Paris,: Chez Basan, Graveur, rue du Foin,, M. DCC. LXIII.
Physical Description
2 vols.; 634 mm. (Broadsheet).
General Note
Vol. I: [ii], v, [i], 32 p., [...] sheets carrying 88 pl. There are ter pl.3; pl. [5] is not numbered. Some single plates are carried two on one sheet: pl. 10 & 11, 12 & 13, 21 & 22; 36 & 37, 47 & 48; 76 & 77. Plates 1, 26, 50, 51 and 88 are double. The following are also double but are carried two on one sheet: 52 & 53, 54 & 55, 56 & 57. - Vol. II: [ii], 40 p., [88] sheets carrying plates 89-137, [1-42]. In this volume there is a bis pl. 90. The single plates 93 & 94, 95 & 96, 115 & 116 and [3] & [4] are printed two per sheet. The following ten plates are double: 98, 110, 111, 112, 122, 123, [2], [6], [14], [19].
Contents
Vol. I: p.[i] [Title-p.] - p.[ii] Avis. - p.i-v. Preface. - p.[vi] [Blank] - p.1-32. Abrégé ... Description De Leurs Tableaux Et Desseins [descriptions of pl. 1-88]. - [Plates 1-88.] - Vol. II: p.[i-ii] [Title-p.; blank] - p.[1]-22. Abrégé ... Description de leurs Tableaux & Desseins [description of pl. 89-137]. - p.23-40. Abrégé ... Description ... [description of pl. 1-42]. - [Plates 89-137, [1-42]].
References
A. Griffiths, 'Notes on early aquatint in England and France', in Print Quarterly, 4 (1987), p.255-70.
Summary Note
Several of Charpentier's prints are early examples of resin-ground aquatint.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Defective; lacks plates 54, 55.
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf; rebacked with spine gilt-tooled in 18th-century manner, and retaining spine-labels lettered 'Estamp De Crozat Tom I (II)'.