Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosités : après le décès de feu Monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville, maître des comptes, & membre des Sociétés royale de Londres & de Monpellier
Engraved frontispiece signed: Augustin de Saint-Aubin inv. 1757
Date of sale: March 3, 1766; Place of sale: Paris.
Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (1680-1765), was a magistrate and civil servant of the state by profession, but also a naturalist and art historian, a contributor to the Encyclopedia, a passionate collector and connoisseur emeritus both in the sciences and arts, and an author, among others works, of a famous Conchyliologie, a very popular treatise on gardening and a summary of the lives of some famous painters. He epitomizes the very persistence of spirit of the curiosity cabinet owner in the time of Louis XV and had one of the richest "curious cabinets" of his time. His collection was dispersed after his death in two sales (held in 1766 and 1779). -- Pierre Coumans description.
Full old tree calf, gilt gillets around sides, spine with gilt raised bands, small gilt fleuron in panels, red and green lettering pieces, inner gilt hatching, blue paper doublure and endpapers, marbled edges.
Watson Library copy: is annotated in a contemporary hand, has bookplate labelled "Bibliotheque du Marquis de Granges de Surgeres", and is bound with Catalogue raisonné des differens effets curieux & rares contenus dans le cabinet de feu M. le chevalier de La Roque.
Date of sale: March 3, 1766; Place of sale: Paris.
Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (1680-1765), was a magistrate and civil servant of the state by profession, but also a naturalist and art historian, a contributor to the Encyclopedia, a passionate collector and connoisseur emeritus both in the sciences and arts, and an author, among others works, of a famous Conchyliologie, a very popular treatise on gardening and a summary of the lives of some famous painters. He epitomizes the very persistence of spirit of the curiosity cabinet owner in the time of Louis XV and had one of the richest "curious cabinets" of his time. His collection was dispersed after his death in two sales (held in 1766 and 1779). -- Pierre Coumans description.
Full old tree calf, gilt gillets around sides, spine with gilt raised bands, small gilt fleuron in panels, red and green lettering pieces, inner gilt hatching, blue paper doublure and endpapers, marbled edges.
Watson Library copy: is annotated in a contemporary hand, has bookplate labelled "Bibliotheque du Marquis de Granges de Surgeres", and is bound with Catalogue raisonné des differens effets curieux & rares contenus dans le cabinet de feu M. le chevalier de La Roque.
Artwork Details
- Title: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosités : après le décès de feu Monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville, maître des comptes, & membre des Sociétés royale de Londres & de Monpellier
- Illustrator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
- Author: Pierre Rémy (French, 1715–1797)
- Collector: Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (French, Paris 1680–1765 Paris)
- Date: 1766
- Geography: Paris, France
- Dimensions: xij, 152 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; Height: 7 1/16 in. (18 cm)
- Object Number: N5260 .L13 1745
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