LE PAUTRE, ANTOINE
Les oeuvres d'architecture.
Folio (cm 39), ottima legat. in pelle settecentesca con dorso a 6 nervi con fregi in oro negli scomparti e tassello rosso, alone al margine superiore (più visibile alle prime cc.), ottimo esemplare. Nota d’appart. ms. datata 1726 (che ‘passa’ legg. al verso). Frontespizio allegorico inciso a doppia pagina, altra incisione a doppia pag. con allegorie dell’Architettura ed armi di Francia, dedica dello stampatore a doppia p. al Principe di Condè, ritratto dell’Aut. pure inciso a doppia pag., ed altre 59 tavole (perciò in tutto 62 incluse le prelim., di cui compless. 58 a doppia pagina), attribuite all’aut. e a Jean Marot, accompagnate da 38 pp. di testo. Terza edizione, pubblicata dopo la morte dell’Aut., avvenuta nel 1691. Fowler 181 (collaz. simile); Millard, Architectural coll. I, 96 (60 tavole); Berlin Kat. 2375 (60 tavole). Cicognara 604; Nagler, Kunstler-Lexicon X, 122 e XI, 30. Anthoine Le Pautre (1621-1691), was "responsible for several major buildings in Paris and is the chief representative of the baroque episode in French architecture, which was based on Italian models. He became one of the founding members of the Acedemie Royale d'Architecture when it was established in 1671.The examples contained in Le Pautre’s ‘Oeuvres’ are evenly divided between four projects consisting of highly imaginative fantasies on country houses, for which the ultimate source appears to be the third book of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau’s ‘Livres d'architecture’, and four built works, including his important designs for the Chapelle de Porte-Royale and the Hotel de Beauvais, all designed and engraved by Le Pautre ... The unbuilt projects on country houses had considerable impact on the designs of later architects. Bernini was influenced by the fourth project in his first design for the east front of the Louvre, and both the second and fourth designs would be adapted for projects by such major eighteenth century architects as Germain Boffrand and Claude Nicholas Ledoux" (cfr. Millard Collection).
Paris, Jombert s.d., circa 1694
€ 3.000,00
