Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1694-1774
Title:
Description des travaux : qui ont précédé, accompagné et suivi la font en bronze d'un seul jet de la statue équestre de Louis XV, le Bien-Aimé / dressée sur les mémoires de M. Lempereur, ancien echevin, par M. Mariette.
Published / Created:
Paris : Impr. de P. G. Le Mercier, 1768.
Physical Description:
ix, 166 p., [59] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 57 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B D 19
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
58 full-page or larger technical etchings by P. Patte and one by B. L. Prévost; etched vignette on t. p., designed and engraved by A. de Saint-Aubin; headpiece (inauguration ceremony) by Saint-Aubin after H. Gravelot; pictorial initial.

BAC: For more information see object file.

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v.3, 1429

Engraved plates of all stages of the casting and erection of monument. The sculptor was Edme Bouchardon. Upon his death the work was completed by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.
Subject Terms:
Louis XV, King of France, 1710–1774 -- Monuments. | Bronze founding. | Monuments -- France -- Early works to 1800. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1768.
Contributors:
Lempereur, Jean Louis. | Patte, Pierre, 1723–1814. | Saint-Aubin, Augustin, 1736–1807. | Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735–1804? | Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste, 1714–1785. | Bouchardon, Edme, 1698–1762. | Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699–1773, engraver.