Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bossuit, Francis van, 1635?-1692
Title:
Cabinet de l'art de schulpture [sic] / par le fameux sculpteur Francis van Bossuit ; executé en yvoire ou ebauché en terre ; gravées d'apres les desseins de Barent Graat par Matthys Pool.
Alternate Title(s):
Cabinet de l'art de sculpture
Published / Created:
A Amsterdam : Chez Matthys Pool sur le leʻiose graft proche de heere graft, MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
103 [i.e. 99] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NB673.B57 A4 1727+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engraved throughout.

Printed on one side of leaf only.

Text, biographical sketches of artists in parallel columns of French, Dutch and English, printed in italics.

Paging consists of 10 introductory leaves, numbered 1-2, A, III-IV. Plates numbered IX-CIII and one final unnumbered leaf of index.

Titles on added engraved t.p. following t.p. proper: Beeld-snyders, kunst-kabinet door den vermaar den beeldsnyder Francis van Boissuit in yvoor gesneeden en geboetseert, in't koper gebragt naar de teekeningen van Barent Graat. Door Mattys Pool = Statues, or art's cabinet containing the ivory works of that famous statuary Francis van Bossuit and curiously ingraven [sic] in copper, according to the draught of Barent Graat by Mathew Pool.

Cicognara, 272

BAC: Illegible contemporary ms inscription on recto of first free end-paper.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1727.
Contributors:
Graat, Barend, 1628–1709. | Pool, Matthys, 1670–ca. 1732.