For insight into daily life in France in the eighteenth century, architectural and ornament drawings provide compelling visual documentation. This catalogue of eighteenth-century French drawings selected from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection testifies to the peerless efforts on the part of artists and craftsmen of France's Age of Enlightenment to invest utilitarian objects with refinement and beauty. Many different types of drawings illustrate how wide-ranging these aesthetic concerns were. Architectural subjects ...
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For insight into daily life in France in the eighteenth century, architectural and ornament drawings provide compelling visual documentation. This catalogue of eighteenth-century French drawings selected from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection testifies to the peerless efforts on the part of artists and craftsmen of France's Age of Enlightenment to invest utilitarian objects with refinement and beauty. Many different types of drawings illustrate how wide-ranging these aesthetic concerns were. Architectural subjects include designs for townhouse exteriors and interiors, including decorative ornament; pavilions; stage sets; temporary structures for court and civic festivities; and an entry for the Prix de Rome architectural competition. These are joined by studies for fountains, furniture, carpets, a screen panel, decorative hardware, silver and other metalwork, porcelain, vases, and a cane handle. There are also designs for printed materials, ranging from ornamental book illustrations to a printed funeral ticket. Fantasy architectural capriccios of no utilitarian function constitute another major genre. These compositions allow us to analyze the working methods of eighteenth-century French artists and craftsmen. Some drawings represent the artists' earliest conceptions, others the completely evolved idea in its final form, ready for execution. Highly finished drawings made for presentation to the client or as a kind of catalogue for clients to choose from appear along with drawings made as records of already existing architecture and interiors. The latter, in some cases, are the only documentation we have of these monuments. One hundred twenty-five entries are accompanied by 148 black-and-white illustrations and seventeen color plates. The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by artist and is complemented by a list of abbreviated references and an index. Each entry includes descriptive commentary, provenance, and references that make this book invaluable to the scholar, the collector, and the layman. [This book was originally published in 1991 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 29 cm.; ine. Due to weight, no foreign orders or domestic priority shipments accepted without prior arrangement as to shipping costs, which will exceed our usual rates. Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 10, 1991-Mar. 15, 1992. xxx, 224 p. : ill. (some col. ); 29 cm. 224 pages. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y. )--Exhibitions, Drawing, French--18th century--Exhibitions, Decoration and ornament--France--History--18th century--Exhibitions.
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As New. 224p. A large hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition. Measures approx. 11.25" x 8.8"
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 4to; Firm binding, no ownership markings, dent along rear board fore-edge, touch of buckling/dampstain to fore-edge, remainder to bottom edge. Sharp complete DJ.; Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.
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VG. Blue and illus. wraps; 224 pp.; 16 color plates, 100+ bw figures. Accompanied a 1992 exhibition of these architectural and ornamental drawings. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 125 specific pieces. "These compositions allow us to analyze the working methods of eighteenth-century French artists and craftsmen." (back cover).
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Well-kept copy in bright white covers. Illustrated throughout on thick matte paper. PAges are unopened. Would be a Fine copy e excepting the marker line to lower ends. Jacket is crisp & bright, with a closed tear at upper spine and crease at back top edge. Heavy and oversize. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..
