Diverses figures a l'eau forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux. Ensemble pus.rs sortes de masques de l'invention de Paul Farinaste Italien.
by FARINATO, PAOLO
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1736. A Paris, chez A. Jombert, 1736. 4to. (page size 215 x 270 mm, most plates about 170 x 125 mm). 30 leaves of numbered engraved plates (22 plates of cupids - including engraved title, 8 plates of masks). Plus, bound as preliminaries, are the engraved titlepage and the second plate of Abraham Bosse's Differents Manières de Dessiner et Peindre. Later 3/4 buckram with marbled boards. Buckram a bit soiled. Plate 13 cut a bit short and plate 18 with a stain in the upper margin, not affecting the plate. Re-issue of this appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinato (1524 - 1606). Farinati's chiaroscuro drawings were often used as 'modelli'. The first edition was published in 1644. The highly decorative images were intended to be copied as wall decoration, door headings, etc. They show cupids and angels with swags of flowers, bows and arrows, cornucopiae, grape vines, etc. On this work Join-Lambert & Préaud say: "Bosse avait commencé sa carrière d'illustrateur en gravant des planches pour des ouvrages intéressant l'architecture... Poursuivant à son compte la diffusion de modèles de décoration par les estampes, Bosse éditait lui-même en 1644 un recueil de dessins d'ornement dus a Paolo Farinati, dont il avait gravé les trente planches qui offraient des figures d'amours, de masques et des enfants, tous propres à entrer dans des compositions ornamentales." Our copy has two plates bound in as preliminaries and Join-Lambert & Préaud say on this: "Aussi est-il probable que le traité n'ait pas été imprimé sous la forme projetée par Bosse et que le texte, notamment, en soit perdu. Pour autant, la réalisation des cuivres devait être avancée, et un recueil publiée par Jombert en 1737 comme étant le livre de Bosse pour apprendre à dessiner rassemble des estampes qu'on attribue vollontiers pour leur majeure partie à Bosse..." [Kat. Ornam. Berlin 4355; Join-Lambert & Préaud, Abrahm Bosse, Savant Graveur, 2004, pp 43/44 & p. 288] Kat. Ornam. Berlin 4355; Join-Lambert & Préaud, Abrahm Bosse, Savant Graveur, 2004, pp 43/44 & p. 288
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- Diverses figures a l'eau forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux. Ensemble pus.rs sortes de masques de l'invention de Paul Farinaste Italien.
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- FARINATO, PAOLO
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- 1736
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