Description Des Principales Pierres Gravées Du Cabinet De S. A. S. Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans, Premier Prince Du Sang

LaChau, Géraud de [Hrsg.], Le Blond <Abbé> [Hrsg.], Orléans, Louis Philippe d' [Samml.] · 1784 · 76 pictures

This is a 1784 French catalogue of the principal engraved gems in the cabinet of the Duke of Orléans, edited by Géraud de LaChau and the Abbé Le Blond for a learned audience of collectors and antiquarians. Its plates show profile busts of ancient figures, each framed in an oval border and rendered in fine engraved line with stippled shading. A designer could take from them the oval cameo framing, the crisp profile silhouettes, and the laurel-wreath and drapery detail that suggest classical portraiture.

Cicognara · Parte Seconda · Numismatica, e Pietre Intagliate · Archäologie · Plastik und Skulptur · Glyptik · Archaeology · Plastic art and sculpture · Glyptics

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