CATALOGUE DES VOLUMES D'ESTAMPES, dont les... - Lot 106 - Giquello

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CATALOGUE DES VOLUMES D'ESTAMPES, dont les... - Lot 106 - Giquello
CATALOGUE DES VOLUMES D'ESTAMPES, dont les planches sont à la Bibliothèque du Roy. Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1743. Small folio, half marbled calf with small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated with grotesque style (Modern binding in the taste of the time). Bernard, Histoire de l'imprimerie royale du Louvre, pp. 168 and 180. Very rare catalogue of the "Cabinet du Roi", a collection of prints ordered by Louis XIV to perpetuate the memory of his reign. The acquisition in 1667 of the extraordinary collection of engravings by Abbé Michel de Marolles (more than 120,000 pieces!) marked the creation of the Cabinet des Estampes and at the same time decided Louis XIV to encourage the art of engraving and to continue its history. He asked that the most important military events of his reign be retraced with the burin and the point, and that the residences and the royal collections be illustrated and disseminated by means of copper. The best artists of the kingdom (Edelinck, Picart, Audran, Abraham Bosse, Sébastien Le Clerc, Israel Silvestre, etc.) were therefore called upon to engrave battle scenes, views of Versailles and various palaces, festivals, basins, fountains, medals, tapestries, allegorical paintings, etc. This ambitious collection was not really built up until 1727, when the first catalogue was published (cf. Georges Duplessis, Le Cabinet du roi collection d'estampes commandées par Louis XIV, excerpt from Bulletin du bibliophile, 1869). Outer margin of the last two leaves redone.
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