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Collection of 11 suites with 120 engraved and etched plates of Parisian buildings, churches, altars and architectonical details

COTTART, Pierre.
Receuil, des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris.

Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.

Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.

Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.

Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.

Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.



Paris, Van Merle, 1660. Oblong 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with a round label lettered in ink pasted to the front cover. Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648.

With:
(2)  MAROT, Jean. (Recueil de plusieurs portes des principaux hostels et maisons de la ville de Paris ensemble le retable des plus considerables autels des eglises)., Pierre Mariette, ca. 1660. Etched title and 19 etched plates (ca. 195 x 125 mm), numbered 2-20 (Title (1) missing). The plates are for the greater part misbound: plates 9-16 bound after Suite (3). Second edition with the plates 17-20 added for the first time; plate 19 and 20 before plates 9-16 and 18 after Suite(4); and 17 at the end of Suite (11). The first edition had been published in 1644.

(3) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Retables dautels a ljtaliene inventes et graves  par Jean Potre., Pierre Mariette, ca. 1660-1665. Etched title, and 5 etched plates (ca. 215 x 150 mm) of richly decorated altars. In opposition to what Savage tells us, this suite has a proper imprint and the plates are numbered (1, 6, 2-4, (5)), signed by Le Pautre and have the address of Mariette, including plate 3!

(4) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Porte cochere., Pierre Mariette, n.d. Etched title and 5 etched plates (ca. 220 x 145-150 mm) of doors. Very rare suite which was later included in Le Pautre's Oeuvres d'Architecture. vol. II (Paris 1751), nr. 43.

(5) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Cheminees a la moderne inventées et gravéez par..., Pierre Mariette, 1661. Etched title and 5 etched plates (ca. 215 x 153 mm) of mantelpieces. In opposition to what Savage says these 6 plates are unnumbered.

(6)  LE PAUTRE, Jean. Desseins de plaphons., Pierre Mariette, n.d. 5 etched plates, incl. the title (ca. 140 x 195 mm) of richly decorated ceilings, numb. 1-2, 4-6 (Nr. 3 missing). This rare suite was includes in Le Pautre's Oeuvres d'Architecture. vol. I (Paris 1751), nr. 35.

(7)  MAROT, Jean. Nouveaux desseins d'Alcoves inventés et gravés par..., Pierre Mariette, n.d. 8 numbered engraved plates, incl. the title (ca. 130-150 x 220-235 mm) of alcoves, or bed recesses. Very rare unrecorded edition !

(8)  LE PAUTRE, Jean.de predicateurs nouvellement inventées et gravées par..., Pierre Mariette, 1659. Etched plates, incl. the title (ca. 220x150mm.), of decorated pulpits, numbered 1-3, 6 (Nr. 4-5 missing). This is apparently the first printing of these plates.

(9)  BOISSEAU, Jean. 8 engraved plates (ca. 150 x 210 mm) of buildings in Paris by Boisseau, numbered 8, 5, 7, 8, 19, 13, 4 and one unnumb by Jean Boisseau: (8) L'Hostel de ville, Place de Greve, (5) Palais d'Orleans, (7) L'eglise et college de Sorbonne, (8) L'Hotel d'Angoulesme, (19) L'Hostel du Maine by Claude Chastillon, (13) L'Hospital de St.Louis, (4) Face derriere du Louvre and the Chasteau du comte de Bury en Blaisois.recorded as a separate edition or suite. Probably these plates are taken from Boisseau's Topographie françoise (Paris 1648 or 1655). The Parisian bookseller Jean Boisseau (fl. 1637-1658) had acquired the original drawings of Claude Chastillon, a designer and engraver to the king. Boisseau first published the collection in 1641. It became of the greatest archaeological and topographical interest and was republished in 1648 and 1655.

(10) PIERRETZ, Antoine. Recherche de plusieurs beaux morceaux d'ornamens antiques et modernes, comme trophées, frises, masques, feuillages, et autres, dessignés et graves par .., Pierre Mariette, ca. 1660-1665.title and 24 engraved plates (ca. 155 x 110 mm), numbered 1-7 (helmets, military insignia), 8-11, 13-14 (decorated borders, friezes), 15-21 (masks), 22-25 (decorated architectural elements) and an extra nr. 24 (145 x 150 mm; of a geometrical design). (Plate 12 is missing). Very rare suite, not recorded by Savage. It is a new issue of the original edition: Paris, Widow F. Langlois, 1648.

(11) FANELLI, Francesco. Varie architeture di --, scultore del re della Gran Bretagne., Van Merle, 1661.title and 20 engraved plates (the 15 first plates: ca. 220 x 160 mm; the following 5, printed sideways up: ca. 140 x 160 mm) of fountains and grottoes.the first impression of Fanelli's suite of fountains and grottoes and probably not engraved by William Faithorne, to whom it is sometimes attributed. It is also sometimes stated that the work was first published in 1642 (Thieme Becker), but no such edition has been identified. The added plate '17' of the 'Grote de Luxembourg' is by Jean Marot and belongs to suite (2), although the plate was sometimes added to Fanelli's suite.

Very rare and interesting collection of 11 suites of in total 120 engraved and etched plates of buildings, castles, churches, portals, altars, doorways, mantelpieces, ceilings, alcoves or bed recesses, pulpits, architectural decorations (helmets, military insignia, decorated borders, friezes, masks), fountains and grottoes, mainly in Paris and sourroundings. The plates are etched and engraved by the most outstanding and well-known artists in Paris around the middle of the seventeenth century: Jean Le Pautre, Jean Marot ('Le grand Marot'), Pierre Cottart, Jean Boisseau, Antoine Pierretz and Francesco Fanelli. The suites were published and printed by the two most famous printers of engravings and etchings: Pierre Mariette and Van Merle.
This collection is of the greatest importance for the history of French architecture during the seventeenth century.
Good copy.- (Some margins a little bit soiled and wrinkled; binding wrinkled).
Ad 1: Berlin Kat. 2464, 2; Savage a.o., Cat. Brit. Architect. Library 724. Ad 2: Berlin Kat. 2461; Savage 2047; Maubon, Marot, pp. 140-63. Ad 3: Savage 1861, cf. 1833, 70; cf. Berlin Kat. 313, 70; Millard I, p. 273, Nr. 7e. Ad 4: cf. Berlin Kat. 313, 43, cf. 3867, 2; Savage 1833, 43; Millard I, p. 284, Nr. 6a. Ad 5: cf. Berlin Kat. 3789 (Pierre Le P.), cf. 313, 48; Savage 1837, cf. 1833, 48; Millard I, p. 276, Nr.9i. Ad 6: cf. Berlin Kat. 313, 35; cf. Savage 1833, 35; Millard I, p. 284, Nr. 4c. Ad 7: Berlin Kat. 4005, 2. Ad 8: cf. Berlin Kat. 313, 79; Savage 1835, cf. 1833, 79; Millard I, p. 275, Nr. 8a. Ad 9: cf. Millard I, pp. 72-3; not in Berlin Kat. Ad 10: Cf. Berlin Kat. 318; not in Savage! Ad 11: Savage 1020; Guilmard, p. 320.

Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  France  Modelbooks  Ornaments  Print Series 

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