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Suite of Antique Ruins


Duodecim fragmenta structuræ veteris
Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
After: Léonard Thiry (Netherlandish (worked in France), active from 1536, died in 1550)
1550

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Each sheet: 25.4 × 36.9 cm (10 × 14 1/2 in.)
Each platemark: about 16 × 10 cm (6 5/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number1996.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Herbet 1; Berlin 2354; IFF (16th cent.) vol. 1, p. 55; Geymüller 300; Le Blanc (as Androuet de Cerceau) 74
DescriptionFive sheets from an album (the 1565 edition), bound together on the left side, each sheet containing two prints. Second edition (first was 1550). Berlin calls for title and 11 plates.
ProvenanceRothschild Coll. Louvre (1987), No. 87; Ornament prints in Rijksmuseum, No. 580.