CAUVET, Gilles Paul (1731-1788). Recueil D'Ornemens A L'Usage Des Jeunes Artistes Qui Se Destinent A La Décoration Des Bâtimens . Paris: G.P. Cauvet, 1777. 2° (543 x 373mm). Engraved title with arms of the dedicatee, Louis comte de Provence, engraved frontispiece by Le Roy after Taraval, engraved dedication with allegorical headpiece by Martini after Julien, 106 engraved or etched plates on 74 leaves, some in bistre, by Cauvet, Hemery, S.C Miger, Liottier l'aîne, Liottier le jeune, Cte Liottier, Martini, Mme Dabry, Petit, J. le Roy and Vieil after Cauvet. (Repaired tears to margins of one plate, occasional light surface soiling to margins, stains affecting 2 images and 1 margin.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Cauvet, an acclaimed sculptor and architect, was named 'sculpteur de Monsieur' for his works of architectural ornament. He is considered to have started the reaction against 'le genre rocaille' and his friezes, arabesques ornaments, vases, and overdoors mark the movement from the 'style Louis XV au style dit de l'Empire' (Hoefer: Biographie Generale ). The dedicatee, Louis Stanislas Xavier François de Bourbon (1755-1824), comte de Provence and the future Louis XVIII King of France, was a notable scholar and formed a library containing many classical texts. Berlin Kat. 483; Cohen/de Ricci 208.
CAUVET, Gilles Paul (1731-1788). Recueil D'Ornemens A L'Usage Des Jeunes Artistes Qui Se Destinent A La Décoration Des Bâtimens . Paris: G.P. Cauvet, 1777. 2° (543 x 373mm). Engraved title with arms of the dedicatee, Louis comte de Provence, engraved frontispiece by Le Roy after Taraval, engraved dedication with allegorical headpiece by Martini after Julien, 106 engraved or etched plates on 74 leaves, some in bistre, by Cauvet, Hemery, S.C Miger, Liottier l'aîne, Liottier le jeune, Cte Liottier, Martini, Mme Dabry, Petit, J. le Roy and Vieil after Cauvet. (Repaired tears to margins of one plate, occasional light surface soiling to margins, stains affecting 2 images and 1 margin.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Cauvet, an acclaimed sculptor and architect, was named 'sculpteur de Monsieur' for his works of architectural ornament. He is considered to have started the reaction against 'le genre rocaille' and his friezes, arabesques ornaments, vases, and overdoors mark the movement from the 'style Louis XV au style dit de l'Empire' (Hoefer: Biographie Generale ). The dedicatee, Louis Stanislas Xavier François de Bourbon (1755-1824), comte de Provence and the future Louis XVIII King of France, was a notable scholar and formed a library containing many classical texts. Berlin Kat. 483; Cohen/de Ricci 208.
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